State v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State Ex Rel. Cooper v. French (1990), Friedman v. Commissioner of Public Safety (1991)
59 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 Oregon v. Kennedy · Oregon v. Hass · PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins · 13 Cal. 3d 528 - People v. Brisendine · Wegan v. Village of Lexington
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.
“It is axiomatic that a state supreme court-may interpret its own state constitution to offer greater protection of individual rights than does the federal constitution. Indeed, as the highest court of this state, we are “ ‘independently responsible for safeguarding the rights of [our] citizens.’ ” State courts are, and should be, the first line of defense for individual liberties within the federalist system. This, of course, does not mean that we will or should cavalierly construe our constitution more expansively than the United States Supreme Court has construed the federal constitution.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gray · Rasmussen v. Glass“In the instant case, this Court finds that the prosecutor did not willfully or intentionally elicit any inadmissible evidence nor was his conduct intended to provoke or “goad” the defendant into moving for a mistrial. At most, the prosecutor’s conduct was merely negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schroepfer
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.