Frank v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably United States v. Birdman (1979), People Ex Rel. Younger v. Superior Court (1978)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 75 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 Rahke v. State · Cascio v. State · Davis v. State · State v. Ryan · Whomble v. State
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * it was also prejudicial error to exclude any direct competent evidence not too remote in time, showing specific immoral or unchaste acts and conduct by her with others, not only for the purpose of being considered by the jury in deciding the weight and credibility of her testimony generally, but for the purpose of inferring the probability of consent and discrediting her testimony relating to force or violence used by defendant in accomplishing his purpose and her claimed resistance thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pratt · State v. Hopkins
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.