Fletcher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1981
17 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 Rogers v. State · Collins v. State · 46 So. 2d 479 - Brown v. State · 58 So. 2d 160 - Mertz v. Krueger · Strachaan 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Paul B. Johnson, County Solicitor for the County of Hillsborough, charges that Edward Gaskins of the County of Hillsborough and State of Florida, on the 15th day of January, 1955, in the County and State aforesaid, did unlawfully aid and assist in the setting up, promoting, or conducting of a lottery for money, commonly known as Bolita and Cuba, a further description of which is to the Solicitor unknown, or was unlawfully interested in and connected with said lottery, a further description of which is to the Solicitor unknown, by then and there unlawfully having in his possession certain records containing and showing the shares and interests in the aforesaid lottery which had been sold by divers persons, the names of such persons being to the Solicitor unknown; and" (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * We cannot divide the count into pieces. We must construe the count as a whole. The count also charges that the appellant `was interested in and connected with a lottery for money' and then goes further and alleges what he did by saying `in that he received, collected and transported money and records of the sale of chances on a lottery * * *.' The count was sufficient to charge a felony."”
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.