Commonwealth v. Fraser’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2016
19 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 Beard v. United States · Commonwealth v. Johnson · People v. Lewis · Fortune v. Commonwealth · State v. . Miller
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he judge, ... in charging the jury, stated as an essential ingredient of justifiable killing in self-defense, that the [defendant] must have reasonably believed that he had no other means of escape from death or great bodily harm____The [defendant], it is true, had a right to be in the house where he was, but so had the deceased---Neither had any right to eject the other, and when the struggle between them took place the ordinary rules as to self-defense were alone applicable. Rights of a householder against a violent intruder have no relevancy [in such a situation].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.