State v. Frye’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Golphin (2000), State v. Lawrence (2000)
102 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Penry v. Lynaugh · New Jersey v. New York · Nebraska v. Wyoming
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order to preserve a question for appellate review, a party must have presented to the trial court a timely request, objection or motion, stating the specific grounds for the ruling the party desired the court to make if the specific grounds were not apparent from the context”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In capital cases ... an appellate court may review the prosecution’s argument, even though defendant raised no objection at trial, but the impropriety of the argument must be gross indeed in order for this Court to hold that a trial judge abused his discretion in not recognizing and correcting ex mero motu an argument which defense counsel apparently did not believe was prejudicial when he heard it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Phillips · State v. Warren“[d]efendant objected to the evidence on only one ground; thus, he failed to preserve the additional grounds presented on appeal”
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.