Frost v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kenai Peninsula Fisherman's Cooperative Ass'n v. State · Wood v. Collins · Price v. Eastham · State, Department of Health & Social Services v. Valley Hospital Ass'n · Walker v. Walker
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause basic fairness requires an opportunity to present relevant evidence, applying an unanticipated body of law could be an abuse of discretion if doing so were to make different outcome-determinative facts relevant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if announced at the outset of the trial, [would] have reasonably led [the parties] to present different evidence or to place more emphasis on some of the evidence that [they] did present.”
2 later decisions 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.