Frazier v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 1224 · 1971
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Wainwright v. Sykes (1977), Thomas v. Wyrick (1976)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia · Henry v. State of Mississippi
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Lower federal courts on the point are rare, since most searches in federal criminal cases are conducted under rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The nearly unanimous view is that the Fourth Amendment requires that only information related to the magistrate on Oath or affirmation is competent upon which to base a finding of probable cause; that unsworn oral statements may not form a basis for that decision." (Footnotes omitted; citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation ...”
1 later decision 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.