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← 149 SW3D 363 - Fulcher v. Commonwealth

Fulcher v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
June 2014
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Kotila v. Commonwealth

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “was seduced by a metaphysical infatuation which led to an absurdity”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “does violence to the concept of common sense.”
    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.