Pitka v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
April 2021
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sullivan v. Louisiana · United States v. Gaudin · Martinez v. Borg · United States v. Caldwell · United States v. Tagalicud
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is constitutional error not to instruct on an essential element of a crime 'because it lets [the jury] convict without finding the defendant guilty of that element.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.