State v. Fulton’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. James (1989), State v. Ramirez (1991)
2 federal appellate · 55 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · California v. Green · Brewer v. Williams · North Carolina v. Butler
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n alibi defense ... is not one that has merit independent of whether the State can prove the statutory elements of the crime; rather, an alibi defense challenges the State's ability to prove the statutory elements.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“an essential corollary of the defendant's right to obtain information on the alleged offense,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gonzales · State v. Bell“[Clompetency requirements [once] served to ensure that the jury would not be exposed to unreliable testimony ... [and rjule 408 can be employed to serve a very similar function.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.