Frazier v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
335 U.S. 497 · 1948
Citation profile
498 federal appellate · 54 district · 143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 821 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Smith v. Phillips (1982)
498 federal appellate · 54 district · 143 state decisions — followed in 31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFrazier v. United States (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Lewis v. United States · Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co. · Pointer v. United States · Ballard v. United States
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 821 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an opportunity beyond the minimum requirements of fair selection to express an arbitrary preference among jurors properly selected and fully qualified to sit in judgment on his case.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the nature of a statutory privilege, ... (it) may be withheld altogether without impairing the constitutional guaranties of 'an impartial jury' and a fair trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]mpartiality is not a technical conception. It is a state of mind. For the ascertainment of this mental attitude of appropriate indifference, the Constitution lays down no particular tests and procedure is not chained to any ancient and artificial formula.”
3 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.