Fry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Davis v. State (1996), Vickers v. State (1993)
31 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 White v. State · Free v. State · Doby v. State · George v. State · Bonds 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By statute and case law it is established that generally the time a crime is alleged to have occurred is not of critical significance unless the date is material to the offense. Arkansas Code Ann. § 16-85-405(d) (1987); Bonds v. State, 296 Ark. 1 , 751 S.W.2d 339 (1988); Kirkham v. City of North Little Rock, 227 Ark. 789 , 301 S.W.2d 559 (1957). That is particularly true with sexual crimes against children and infants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State
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.