Fugate v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Wellons v. State (1995), Pye v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Mills v. Maryland · McKoy v. North Carolina · Earnest v. State · Pope v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Fugate and the victim were divorced after almost 20 years of marriage. The victim lived with their son in the former marriage residence, while Fugate moved to another town to minimize the likelihood that he would find himself in violation of a restraining order prohibiting him from having contact with his former wife. However, on Saturday, May 4,1991, Fugate went to the victim’s residence while she and the son were at work. (The son worked part-time at the same business as the victim.) According to Fugate, the victim had left him a note stating she would be in South Carolina that weekend, and he thought he would repair his son’s automobile while they were gone. Fugate broke into the house soon after his wife and son left for work and stayed there from 9:00 a.m. until they returned home at 5:30 that afternoon. When the victim and the son returned home, they noticed that the son’s car had been moved. She called her sister. The son testified that when he heard a noise in the basement, he got his rifle and ordered Fugate to come out. When Fugate appeared with a revolver in his hand, the son tried to shoot him because Fugate had threatened to kill the victim “if he ever caught her alone.” However, the son’s rifle had been unloaded and disabled and would not fire. Fugate brushed past his son and went to the victim. According to Fugate, he was surprised by the victim’s return, and went to the basement thinking he would sneak out a back door and avoid a confrontation. However, there ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It would be a rare case in which the trial court's exercise of discretion on this issue would warrant reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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