Fletcher v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1970 · most notably Carter v. Commonwealth (1935), Nelson v. Commonwealth. (1930)
31 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 Gillis v. Commonwealth · Keefe v. Commonwealth · Warman v. Commonwealth · Stubblefield 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The court in instructing the jury did not define sudden affray, and this is complained of on the authority of Gillis v. Commonwealth, 202 Ky. 827 . As the words are a legal term and their legal meaning may not be apprehended by a jury it is proper that the words should be defined. The court has never held that a failure to define them is ground for reversal. The defendant here was not prejudiced by this; he was only found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.