Fuller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1983 · most notably State v. Trotter (1973), State v. Ramos (1972)
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 People v. Baldwin · Hardtke v. State · Sage v. State · Harper v. Lamping · People v. Blackwell
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the instant case, however, appellant was attempting to show that the child which was produced by the prosecutrix and referred to by her as the result of an act of intercourse had on June 29, 1920, with the accused, was in truth begotten by another man. Stated shortly and simply, he had a right to account for the result, i. e., the child, by showing that it was due to another cause, i. e., the sexual intercourse of another. His right to do this was coequal with the right of the state to support the allegation of rape by showing the outcome of the act. If appellant could show that he was not the father of the child directly charged to be his, it was most material to his defense, and he should be allowed to prove it by all relevant evidence. There is no dissent in the authorities from these propositions. State v. Mobley, 44 Wash. 549 , 87 P. 815 ; State v. Apley, 25 N. D. 298 , 141 N. W. 740 , 48 L. R. A. (N. S.) 269, and note at page 276; People v. Flaherty, 79 Hun, 48 , 29 N. Y. S. 641; Bice v. State, 37 Tex. Cr. R. 38 , 38 S. W. 803 ; State v. Height, 117 Iowa, 650 , 91 N. W. 935 -940, 59 L. R. A. 437, 94 Am. St. Rep. 323 ; People v. Currie, 14 Cal. App. 67 , 111 P. 108 ; State v. Bebb, 125 Iowa, 494 , 101 N. W. 189 ; Parker v. State, 62 Tex. Cr. R. 64 , 136 S. W. 453 . See, also, 22 R. C. L. § 45, p. 1211.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The party against whom a witness is produced has a right to show everything which may in the slightest degree affect his credibility * * * ”. (Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rothe
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.