Frazer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 778 · 1994
Citation profile
164 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 332 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), Sanchez v. United States (1995)
164 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Anders v. California · Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Johnson v. Zerbst
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 332 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“stupid nigger son of a bitch and said he hopes I get life”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.