Frederick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “.... [A] harmless error analysis may be applied to constitutional violations involving trial error which occurs during the presentation of the case to the jury because such error can be "quantitatively assessed in the context of other evidence presented in order to determine whether its admission was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt." In contrast, errors which cannot be subject to harmless error analysis are those which exemplify "structural defects in the constitution of the trial mechanism." The Court reasoned that errors such as absence of counsel for a criminal defendant and an impartial judge affect the entire conduct of a trial from the beginning to the end. "Each of these constitutional deprivations is a similar structural defect affecting the framework within which the trial proceeds, rather than simply an error in the trial process itself." (citations omitted)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hain v. State

2. “1. The murder was committed for the purpose of avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest or prosecution, and 2. The existence of a probability that the defendant would commit eriminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2001 OK CR 34 - Frederick v. State

3. “quantitatively assessed in the context of other evidence presented in order to determine whether its admission was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hain v. State