Fairchild v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
August 1933
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on May v. Commonwealth · Kennedy & Wigginton v. Commonwealth · Cloninger 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As in this case the jury accepted the positive testimony of the one witness for the Commonwealth, whose reputation for truth -and veracity was unattached, and much of that of the appellant’s witnesses was of a negative character, the verdict cannot be assailed or set aside upon the ground that it is unsupported by or flagrantly against the evidence.””
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.