9 Va. App. 348 - Frantz v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2017
4 federal appellate · 10 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 6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso v. Commonwealth · Freeman v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 313 - Foster v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 473 - Dickerson v. City of Richmond
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accosts, entices or solicits a person less than eighteen years of age with intent to induce or force such person to perform in or be a subject of sexually explicit visual material.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence that Frantz himself was sexually aroused by the poses is irrelevant.”
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.