Frazier v. Heebe’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 24 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 327 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bank of Nova Scotia v. United States (1988), Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa (1989)
127 federal appellate · 24 district · 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFrazier v. Heebe (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654 · 28 U.S.C. § 2071 (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendments) · 28 U.S.C. § 2072
Relies on Hanna v. Plumer · Cupp v. Naughten · United States v. Hasting · In the Matter of John Ruffalo Jr · Theard 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 327 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may from time to time prescribe rules for the conduct of their business. Such rules shall be consistent with Acts of Congress and rules of practice and procedure prescribed by the Supreme Court.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a district court has discretion to adopt local rules that are necessary to carry out the conduct of its business . . . [the United States Supreme Court] may exercise its inherent supervisory power to ensure that these local rules are consistent with the principles of right and justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ach district court by action of a majority of the judges thereof may from time to time, after giving appropriate public notice and an opportunity to comment, make and amend rules governing its practice not inconsistent with [the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.