Frierson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2006
19 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 McGinnis v. State · West v. State · Jaquith v. Beckwith · Neilsen v. State · Whitehead v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court instructs the Jury for the defendant that the right of self defense is one of our inalienable rights. Any person assaulted by another has the right to repel such assault by such means and force as may to him be apparently and reasonably necessary. He should be judged in the light of the circumstances then apparent to him, rather than in the light of after developed facts. “If you. believe from the evidence in this case that the defendant, J. W. Alexander, was not the aggressor, and that he was assaulted by threats and physical force by the deceased, Ruby Jackson, then the law of self defense is that the defendant then and there had the right to repel such threats and assaults by using such force as to him was then reasonable and apparently necessary to repel such assault on him and defend himself. If no greater force was under such circumstances then used by defendant, it is your duty to find the defendant not guilty. “And in this respect, you are further instructed that if the defendant under such circumstances, did use greater force than was to him apparently reasonable and necessary to defend himself, and did so in the heat of passion and without malice and not in necessary self defense then he would be guilty of no greater crime than manslaughter; and in such event your verdict should be ‘We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of manslaughter. ’ ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alexander v. State“to avoid placing an accused on trial unless he is capable of conducting a rational defense by intelligently conferring with his counsel.”
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.