Fuller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 1981 · most notably 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State (1981), Forehand v. State (1936)
42 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 Armstrong v. State · Green v. State · Platt v. State · Ming v. State · Davis 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Fuller v. State, supra, the Court say: “In considering this case, we are mindful of the oft repeated rule that in a criminal prosecution, a verdict of guilty will not ordinarily be disturbed upon the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence, where there is some evidence from .which all the elements of the crime may have been legally found or. inferred, and it does not appear that the jury was not governed by the evidence adduced at the trial. Exceptions to this rule, however, have been previously recognized by this Court in criminal cases where the evidence as to the identity of the accused as being the guilty party was not satisfactory, and also where the verdict was not in accord with the manifest justice of the case. See Platt v. State, 65 Fla. 253 , 61 So. R. 502; Nims v. State, 70 So. R. 565; Davis v. State, 76 Pla. 179, 79 So. R. 450, Ming v. State, 89 Fla. 280 , 103 So. R. 618.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. State“"This court is very reluctant to interfere with the verdict of a jury on the facts. After a most careful consideration, however, of the evidence disclosed by this record, the court is of the opinion that while there is some evidence to identify the defendant as the guilty party, the evidence upon the essential issue of identity, taken as a whole, and considered in the light of the countervailing testimony on that question, is such that it is considered just and right that another jury should pass upon the issues made. "The judgment is therefore reversed and a new trial granted." (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.