Fugate v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1968 · most notably Lamb v. State of Florida (1926), Lang v. State (1956)
1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But in general, and in the practice of most of the states, this remedy is nearly exploded, or at leást superseded by that of amending on motion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boyd v. Smyth
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.