Fuller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Billis v. State (1990), Carfield v. State (1982)
41 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 Bullock v. United States · Davis v. United States · 3 Cal. 3d 893 - People v. Rocha · United States v. Calvert · Eagan 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the power to hear and determine cases of the general class to which the proceedings in question belong.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * Our responsibility in considering the propriety of a ruling on a motion for judgment of acquittal is the same as that of the trial court. [Citation.] The question raised is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the charge, which is a matter to be determined within the sound discretion of the trial court. [Citations.] In making that determination the district court must assume the truth of the evidence of the State and give to the State the benefit of all legitimate inferences to be drawn from that evidence. If a prima facie case is demonstrated when the evidence is so examined, the motion for judgment of acquittal properly is denied. [Citation.] It is proper to grant a motion for judgment of acquittal only if there is no substantial evidence to sustain the material allegations relating to the offense that is charged. [Citations.] Such a result is indicated if the evidence requires the jury to speculate or conjecture as to the defendant’s guilt or if a reasonable juror must have a reasonable doubt as to the existence of any of the essential elements of the crime when the evidence is viewed in the light most favorable to the State. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carfield v. State““ * * * We have noted that the term ‘maliciously’ embraces, amongst other things, the element of unlawful intent. Evanson v. State, Wyo., 546 P.2d 412 (1976); Elliott v. State, 47 Wyo. 36 , 30 P.2d 791 (1934). I conclude that when the legislature incorporated the term ‘maliciously’ in the statute the word connoted nothing more than unlawful intent or general intent. If the legislature intended to encompass a specific intent within the statute, it would have done so specifically.” 568 P.2d at 904 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Crozier 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.