Franklin v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably People v. Williams (1959), State v. Perkinson (1992)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact of a forgery of a particular paper cannot be shown by proof of other crimes of the same kind. If it had been shown that he had written this will, and the defense was that it had been written innocently, or by direction of the testator, then, to show guilty purpose' or motive, it might have been admissible to show other offenses of the same kind. That was not the question here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This act opens the door to the admission of a class of evidence of very slight value. It is in derogation of common law, and should be strictly construed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Omohundro v. State“Comparison of handwriting by experts was at common law inadmissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Omohundro v. State
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.