Frisbie v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
1,062 federal appellate · 152 district · 787 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,550 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Gerstein v. Pugh (1975)
1,062 federal appellate · 152 district · 787 state decisions — followed in 46 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
reviewedCollins v. Frisbie (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Darr v. Burford · Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · Newhall v. Le Breton · United States v. California
Cited together with Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · Gerstein v. Pugh · Darr v. Burford · Newhall v. Le Breton · United States v. Crews
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 2,550 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]ue process of law is satisfied when one present in court is convicted of crime after having been fairly apprised of the charges against him and after a fair trial in accordance with constitutional procedural safeguards. There is nothing in the Constitution that requires a court to permit a guilty person rightfully convicted to escape justice because he was brought to trial against his will.”
96 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As explained in Darr v. Burford, 339 U.S. 200 , 210 [70 S.Ct. 587, 593, 94 L.Ed. 761], this general rule is not rigid and inflexible; district courts may deviate from it and grant relief in special circumstances. Whether such circumstances exist calls for a factual appraisal by the court in each special situation. Determination of this issue, like others, is largely left to the trial courts subject to appropriate review by the courts of appeals.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he due process of law guaranteed by the 14th Amendment has regard to substance of right, and not to matters of form or procedure; * * * it is open to the courts of the United States upon an application for a writ of habeas corpus, to look beyond forms and inquire into the very substance of the matter, to the extent of deciding whether the prisoner has been deprived of his liberty without due process of law, and for this purpose to inquire into jurisdictional facts, whether they appear upon the record or not * *.”
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.