Fry v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1975
6 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 Honesty v. Commonwealth · Cluverius v. Commonwealth · Hall v. Commonwealth · Richards v. Commonwealth
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fourth exception is as to the refusal of the court to allow the injured female to be asked if she had not been before a person of unchaste character. This question was properly excluded. The plaintiff [in error] would not have had the right to assault and ravish the said prosecutrix if such had been the case; and if it had been so, the plaintiff in error could have proved, if able to do so, by others, which he attempted to do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.