Fuson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1999
23 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 Powers v. Commonwealth · Allen v. Commonwealth · O'Brien v. Commonwealth · Smith v. Commonwealth · Steeley 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To be effective justice must be swift. It is a matter of common knowledge that delays in such cases lessen both the chance and the effect of convictions, and it is the policy of the law to afford speedy trials. But it is of even greater importance for justice to be certain and sure, and in seeking speedy trials courts are careful to avoid being rushed into hasty conclusions by popular clamor, or by force of public sentiment, but seek to give to each side a fair hearing. With that object in view this court has not hesitated to reverse cases where it appeared that sufficient time and opportunity were not given the defendant, and his counsel to properly prepare andpresent his defense; . . . as illustrating the rule reference might be had to the cases of Allen v. Comlth., 168 Ky. 325 ; Smith v. Comlth., 133 Ky. 532 ; Samuels v. Comlth., 154 Ky. 758 ; Stroud v. Comlth., 160 Ky. 503 ; Helton v. Comlth., 27 L. R. 1163.; Miller v. Comlth., 197 Ky. 703 . However, in this case the judgment of the court on the motion for a continuance does not appear in the record and no exceptions were taken thereto by defendants and consequently it cannot now be considered. Criminal Code, sections 280-2; Bates v. Comlth., 13 R. 132 ; Blanton v. Comlth., 147 Ky. 814 ; O’Brien v. Comlth., 89 Ky. 364 ; Green v. Comlth., 26 R. 1227 ; Smith v. Comlth., 26 R. 1229 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If one commits a crime and another is actually present aiding, abetting, assisting, or encouraging its commission, the latter thereby becomes a participant, a principal in the second degree, and his culpability is determined by his motives, and not by the degree of his influence over the former.””
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.