Terry v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2004
11 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The instrument must appear on its face to be, or be in fact, one which, if true, would be valid or legally capable of effecting a fraud. Writings invalid on their face are not subjects of forgery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the fraudulent making of a false writing, which, if genuine, would be apparently of legal efficacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it does not fix, nor could it operate, any pecuniary liability upon [Trigon].”
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.