United States v. Frattini’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 1234 · 1974
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2015
13 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Massiah v. United States · Ungar v. Sarafite · United States v. Ware · United States v. Brown · United States v. Adams
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even though “the persons who made the memoranda were present at the trial and were tendered for cross-examination (and) that the memoranda were merely cumulative of other evidence properly in the record and that there was overwhelming evidence properly received on the defendant’s guilt” we cannot say that the error did not influence the jury, to the defendant’s detriment, or even that it had but very slight effect.”
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.