Fugate v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1973
22 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 Johnston v. Commonwealth · McCreary v. Commonwealth · Copley v. Commonwealth · Steele 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If all the witnesses answer the questions in the negative, the court should exclude them, and admonish the jury that they cannot be considered for any purpose. If the witness answers in the affirmative the court should substantially tell the jury that the matters referred to in those questions are not in issue, and that the answers of the witness are not to be regarded as evidence of the truth of such matters, or as - evidence of any substantive fact, but that they may be regarded by the jury in considering the credibility and accuracy of the-witness and for no other purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood 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.