Frazier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2023
16 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 Smith v. Doe · Ledesma v. State · Landers v. State · State v. Johnson · Thompson 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sex offender registration law first became effective on July 1, 1996 and, in pertinent part, requires registration by any individual who “(h) as previously been convicted of a criminal offense against a minor(, as defined in OCGA § 42-1-12 (a) (9),) and may be released from prison or placed on parole, supervised release, or probation on or after July 1, 1996.” OCGA § 42-1-12 (e) (3). 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To determine whether a penal statute is an ex post facto law, we employ a three-step analysis: First, we ask whether the law applies retrospectively. (Cit.) If it does not, our inquiry is at an end. ... A penal statute is retrospective if it alters the consequences for crimes committed prior to its enactment. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The fact that [a defendant's] prior conviction subjects him to possible [future] punishment [for failing to register] under OCGA § 42-1-[12] does not somehow convert the statute into an unconstitutional ex post facto law as applied to [him].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rainer 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.