Frierson v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2026
13 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 Hungate v. Hudson · Sprinkle v. Davis · State v. Rowland · Lakeview, Inc. v. Davidson · Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Hill
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Anything which tends to show bias or prejudice on the part of the witness or anything which shows his friendship or intimacy toward either of the parties is commonly a proper subject of inquiry.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]lthough decisions of the Court of Criminal appeals are not binding upon this Court, . . . they are accorded a high degree of persuasiveness.”
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.