Fulton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1980 · most notably People v. Prosser (1955), In Re Schechtel (1938)
27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ware v. State · Arrowsmith v. State · State Ex Rel. Stevens v. Wurdeman · Reno Water, Land & Light Co. v. Osburn
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * as it is stipulated that appellants have not been brought into open court and put upon trial or given an opportunity to demand a trial, we hold that these men, who have had no opportunity to demand a trial, should not be regarded as having waived.this valuable right.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Time accused may be kept in jail. If any person indicted for any offense, and committed to prison, shall not be brought to trial before the end of the second term of the court having jurisdiction of the offense, which shall be held after the finding of such indictment, he shall be discharged so far as relates to the offense for which he was committed, unless the delay shall happen on the application of the prisoner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beckwith 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.