Frazier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Wilkerson v. State (1986), Webb v. State (1988)
60 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 · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Spinelli v. United States · Jones 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he reasons for detailing the basis for an officer’s belief in information gained from an undisclosed informant simply do not apply where a private .citizen, whose only cop-tact with the police or criminal activity is a result of having witnessed a single criminal act committed by another, furnishes law enforcement officials with information and vouches for such information by allowing the officers to use his name.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““In order for an affidavit to show probable cause, it must set forth sufficient circumstances to enable a magistrate to judge, independently, the validity of the affiant’s belief that contraband is at the place to be searched.” Id. at 379 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doescher v. State“Technical requirements of elaborate specificity once enacted under common law pleadings have no proper place in this area.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. State
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.