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← 379 S.C. 17 - State v. Fletcher

State v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Deboue v. Louisiana · State v. Lyle · State v. Pagan · State v. Bailey

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “To be admissible, the bad act must logically relate to the crime with which the defendant has been charged.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Even if the prior bad act evidence is clear and convincing and falls within an exception, it must be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice to the defendant.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[T]he determination of prejudice must be based on the entire record, and the result will generally turn on the facts of each case.”
    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.