Commonwealth v. Franks’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stokes (1978), Commonwealth v. Gallant (1977)
4 district · 52 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 Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Underwood · Commonwealth v. Novicki · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. McDonald
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“crime of statutory rape ... is a crime included within the crime of forcible rape ... which was charged in the indictment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. J.H. v. Commonwealth
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.