Fudge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Howard v. State (2006), Barrett v. State (2003)
2 federal appellate · 86 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 United States v. Iron Shell · Nooner v. State · Noel v. State · Williams v. State · Cromwell 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The following are not excluded by the hearsay rule, even though the declarant is available as a witness: (2) Excited Utterance. A statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the event or condition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Flores v. State · Peterson v. State“[i]n accordance with Ark. Sup.Ct. R. 4-3(h) (1998), the record has been reviewed for adverse rulings objected to by appellant James Fudge but not argued on appeal, and no reversible error was found.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fudge · Howard 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.