632 So. 2d 1002 - Frazier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2010
8 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 Nicks v. Alabama · 521 So. 2d 1018 - Ex Parte Anthony Keith Johnson · 521 So. 2d 1035 - Shelton v. State · Ex Parte Frazier · Deutcsh 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]t is reversible error for the prosecutor to comment on the result of a defendant's previous trial at a subsequent trial for the same offense. . . . `[W]e are hard pressed to think of anything more damning to an accused than information that a jury had previously convicted him for the crime charged.'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In Lloyd v. State, 53 Ala.App. 730, 733 , 304 So.2d 232 , cert. denied, 293 Ala. 410 , 304 So.2d 235 (1974), this court held that it is reversible error for the prosecution to comment on the result of a defendant’s previous trial at a subsequent trial for the same offense. See also Wyatt v. State, 419 So.2d 277, 282 (Ala.Crim. App.1982). As the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stated in United States v. Attell, 655 F.2d 703, 705 (5th Cir.1981), ‘[W]e are hard pressed to think of anything more damning to an accused than information that a jury had previously convicted him for the crime charged.’ ””
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.