Frye v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 54 Ala. App. 491 - Bowens v. State · 44 Ala. App. 449 - Harris v. State · Brown v. State · 338 So. 2d 428 - Ellis v. State · 56 Ala. App. 613 - Tooson 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is well settled by the decisions of this state that where offenses are of the same general nature and belong to the same family of crimes, and where the mode of trial and nature of punishment are the same, they may be joined in the same indictment in different counts."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not less than one nor more than five years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lyle 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.