Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“The passing [of] a counterfeit note ... may be itself a perfectly innocent transaction; the guilt consists in passing it, knowing it to be counterfeit. If no other circumstances than those of the transaction itself are given in evidence, it would be impossible to ascertain whether it was passed with this guilty knowledge, or not____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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