State v. Fulks’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably 691 So. 2d 918 - Collins v. State (1997), State v. Superior Court of Pima County (1969)
48 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 Griffin v. California · 61 Cal. 2d 529 - People v. Hernandez · State v. Klueber · State v. Barber · State v. La Mont
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not essential to a conviction in this case that the testimony of the prosecuting witness be corroborated by other evidence provided that from all the evidence you are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty of defendant’s guilt. However, a charge such as that made against the defendant in this case is one which, generally speaking, is easily made, and once made difficult to disprove even if the defendant is innocent. From the nature of a ease such as this the complaining witness and defendant are usually the only witnesses to the actual act or acts constituting the crime. Therefore, you are instructed that the law requires that you examine the testimony of the prosecuting witness with caution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ree · State v. Andrews“[A] person may be convicted of the crime of rape upon the uncorroborated testimony of the complaining witness, yet ... this cannot be rightfully done where, from the whole record, it appears that such testimony is unreliable, improbable, or where such witness has been fairly impeached[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buller · State v. Grey Owl“`accomplished with a female not the wife of the perpetrator.' It is a part of the statutory definition, and must be alleged in the information and proven at the trial.”
2 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.