Frazier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2000
7 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 Alabama Power Co. v. Edwards · Jacobi v. State · McGee v. State · 45 Ala. App. 221 - Hooks v. State · Boshell v. Illinois Cent. R. Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that the scope and extent of counsel's opening statement to the jury in a criminal case are matters in the sound discretion of the trial judge and his ruling will not be overturned unless an abuse of discretion is shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“They got into a scramble and in some way he injured his left knee and right wrist,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“involved in this trouble in his home by an intruder,”
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.