State v. Frazier’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Pursuant to Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 , 124 S.Ct. 1354 , 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), the Confrontation Clause contained within the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Section 14 of Article III of the West Virginia Constitution bars the admission of a testimonial statement by a witness who does not appear at trial, unless the witness is unavailable to testify and the accused had a prior opportunity to cross-examine the witness.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of West Virginia Terry Allen Blevins

2. “The prosecution’s theory of the ease was that the angle of the shotgun blast was inconsistent with the defendant’s claim of an accidental shooting. Dr. Kaplan was not offering his own conclusions as to what the angle was, but was repeating Dr. Beld-ing’s findings on that key issue. This effectively denied the defendant his right to confront Dr. Belding about his conclusions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of West Virginia Terry Allen Blevins

3. “In a criminal case, the burden is upon the beneficiary of a constitutional error to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mark T. Coleman v. J.T. Binion