Fugate v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1969
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Overstreet v. Commonwealth · Hereford v. People · Commonwealth v. Davis · Commonwealth v. Butland · Bradford 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well known that onr Civil Code, in so far as applicable, governs criminal procedure, and Section 129 thereof says that: ‘No variance between pleadings and proof is material, which does not mislead a party, to his prejudice, in maintaining his action or defense upon the merits.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed v. Commonwealth
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.