Fuselier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 708 So. 2d 18 - Underwood v. State (1998), 921 So. 2d 292 - Spicer v. State (2006)
64 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 Washington v. Texas · Rosen v. United States · United States v. Moreno (89-1150/1208) · 650 So. 2d 1289 - MacK v. State · 557 So. 2d 542 - Griffin 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an instruction that flight may be considered as a circumstance of guilt or guilty knowledge is appropriate only where that flight is unexplained and somehow probative of guilt or guilty knowledge.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Fuselier was obviously put in a no-win situation by either being required to explain his flight and the fact that he was a prison escapee or not explaining the flight and subjecting himself to a flight instruction.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“To apply the harmless error analysis ... this Court must determine whether the weight of the evidence against [the defendant] is sufficient to outweigh the harm done by allowing admission of [the] evidence.”
4 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.