State v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 1988 · most notably State v. McClain (1954), State v. McClain (1954)
57 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. . Molineux · State v. Lyle · State v. . Harris · State v. . Choate · State v. . Biggs
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[P]roof of the commission of other like offenses is competent to show the quo animo, intent, design, guilty knowledge or scienter, or to make out the res gestae, or to exhibit a chain of circumstances in respect of the matter on trial, when such crimes are so connected with the offense charged as to throw light upon one or more of these questions. [Citations omitted.]"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`. . . The acid test is its logical relevancy to the particular excepted purpose or purposes for which it is sought to be introduced. If it is logically pertinent in that it reasonably tends to prove a material fact in issue, it is not to be rejected merely because it incidentally proves the defendant guilty of another crime. . . . Whether the requisite degree of relevancy exists is a judicial question to be resolved in the light of the consideration that the inevitable tendency of such evidence is to raise a legally spurious presumption of guilt in the mind of the jurors.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. May““evidence of one offense is inadmissible to prove another and independent crime, the two being wholly disconnected and in no way related to each other. The reason for the rule is to preserve to the accused, unencumbered by suggestion of other crimes, the common-law presumption of innocence which attaches upon his plea of ‘not guilty,’ and to protect him from the disadvantage of extraneous and surprise charges; also to confine the investigation to the offense charged.” 230 N.C. at 473 , 53 S.E. 2d at 855 . (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simpson
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.