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← 163 MASS 499 - Commonwealth v. Fuller

Commonwealth v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis

1895

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2014
most recently cited

1 district · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2014

1 district · 6 state decisions

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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 State v. Temple

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

  1. “Adultery is not a continuing offence. Each act of adultery constitutes a separate offence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “not set forth any offence known to the law in any legal or sufficient manner”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “bad for duplicity in charging more than one offence in the same count.”
    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.