Fuller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 38 Ala. App. 573 - Schenher v. State (1956), Clements v. State (1979)
96 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 Hornsby v. State · Jinright v. State · Cearfoss v. State · Young v. State · Rembert v. State
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Penal statutes are to reach no further in meaning than their words. Fuller v. State, 257 Ala. 502 , 60 So.2d 202 (1952).”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sexton v. State · JAP v. State“`[o]ne who commits an act which does not come within the words of a criminal statute, according to the general and popular understanding of those words, when they are not used technically, is not to be punished thereunder, merely because the act may contravene the policy of the statute.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`* * * "A penal statute cannot be extended by implication or construction to cases within the mischief, if they are not at the same time within the terms of the act, fairly and reasonably interpreted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.