Abernathy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Pickens v. Al Lockhart (1983), Gillie v. State (1991)
28 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 Earl v. State · Perry v. State · Cromwell v. State · Ruiz v. State · Hobbs 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have interpreted Ark. Stat. Ann. 43-1024 2 to relate to matters of notice and prejudice. See Harmon v. State, 277 Ark. 265 , 641 S.W.2d 21 (1982); Swaite v. State, 274 Ark. 154 , 623 S.W.2d 176 (1981). We recognize the importance of this statute in preventing eleventh-hour amendments and amendments made after trial has begun. The application of the statute was recently demonstrated in Harmon, supra. There, the defendant was charged with murder in the course of kidnapping, but the information was amended to charge in the alternative, murder in the course of robbery. We found error in the trial court’s allowing the amendment to be made the morning of the trial, after the jury had been sworn in. It is this sort of prosecutorial action that constitutes prejudice to a defendant that 43-1024 prohibits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoover v. State“But no indictment shall be amended, nor bill of particulars filed, so as to change the nature of the crime charged or the degree of the crime charged.”
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.