Frye v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 225 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Deck v. Missouri (2005), Murray v. Giarratano (1989)
12 federal appellate · 225 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In certain cases, where verification of the recorded facts is not possible through the personal knowledge of the record keeper, practical necessity nevertheless requires admission of recorded evidence which has a circumstantial guarantee of trustworthiness; this guarantee is provided where evidence shows the regularity of the preparation of the records and reliance on them by their preparers or those for whom they are prepared.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his determination need not be made upon a formal hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claim of ineffective assistance of counsel may be raised on direct appeal if assigned as error and if all matters relating to such issue are fully contained within the record of the trial.”
2 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.