Fraina v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
255 F. 28 · 1918
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1969 · most notably Riggs v. United States (1960), United States v. Spock (1969)
22 federal appellate ·
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 Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Reynolds v. States · Hyde v. United States · Sparf v. United States · Watson v. Jones
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no bill of exceptions. Both parties have agreed to call what is probably a transcript of the stenographer’s minutes by that name; but giving it the requisite name does not make it the lawful thing. The consent was worthless, and it is of grace only that we consider the points argued.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to refuse to be bound, or refuse to act or accept the law, and refuse to do their duty which is required by this law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“idealism compels them to decline all forms of military service.”
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.