374 So. 2d 22 - Fouts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably 476 So. 2d 1262 - Linehan v. State (1985), 451 So. 2d 817 - Gurganus v. State (1984)
33 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 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · United States v. Spletzer · Garner v. State · 201 So. 2d 706 - Cirack v. State · 356 So. 2d 315 - State v. Harris
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was necessary for the state to prove, as an essential element of the crime of escape, that the accused was in "lawful custody" as that term is defined in the above statutes. The requisite quantum of proof in a criminal case is "proof beyond and to the exclusion of reasonable doubt." The state, merely by a showing of custody, even though such showing may support a reasonable inference of lawful custody, has not met the test to support a criminal conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.