Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2017
3 federal appellate · 8 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 Simmons v. South Carolina · Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States · Breard v. Commonwealth · Ramdass v. Commonwealth · Brown 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person convicted of three separate felony offenses . . . when such offenses were not part of a common act, transaction or scheme shall not be eligible for parole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relies upon this Court's expertise in conducting the automatic review of the sentences of death imposed upon him which is required by Code § 17-110.1 of the Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended, and chooses to make no argument relative to this assignment of error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fitzgerald v. Greene“testified truthfully during the voir dire. No one asked Bradshaw during voir dire whether his granddaughter had been molested. Rather, he was asked whether any member of his immediate family had been raped.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fitzgerald v. Greene
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.