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← 625 SW2D 249 - Fulsom v. State

Fulsom v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1992
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Michael O. Watson v. A. R. Jago, Superintendent · State v. Granberry · State v. Ford · Jackson v. State · Boothe 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Where felony-murder either in the first or second degree is the only murder submitted ... the above rules will not be applied, so that lesser offense instructions will not be given automatically. Ordinarily, where there is sufficient evidence to warrant the giving of a felony-murder instruction, there will be no evidence to support the submission of a lesser offense....”
    1 later decision 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.