City's 2-0 victory puts them on 77 points, one ahead of Liverpool, who play Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Sunday.
Both City's first-half goals stemmed from Fulham mistakes. Inside five minutes, Timothy Fosu-Mensah's misplaced pass set in train a City attack that ended with Bernardo Silva firing the ball past Fulham goalkeeper Sergio Rico.
The home team were woeful in the game's opening stages, so much so that even their fans cheered ironically on the rare occasions when their players managed to string a few passes together.
On 27 minutes a mistake from Joe Bryan was pounced on by Silva, who teed up Sergio Ageuro. The Argentine has been in lethal form this season and he wriggled past three Fulham defenders space before expertly finding the net to claim his 18th league goal of the season.
This was Fulham's 23rd league defeat of the season in 32 games, with Saturday's loss leaving the London team 13 points behind fourth from bottom Burnley.
Without the injured Aleksandar Mitrovic, who has scored 10 of Fulham's 29 league goals this season, the home team rarely threatened a dominant City side. Pep Guardiola's team came close to a third in the second half, but Kyle Walker's shot rebounded off the post.
City's victory keeps them on track to win a remarkable quadruple.
Saturday's match marked the start of the Premier League's No Room for Racism campaign, which runs from March 30 to April 8.
On Monday in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Montenegro, City forward Raheem Sterling and two of his England teammates were racially abused.
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