Chessman v. Teets’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘ Deputy District Attorney Leavy did not engage in any fraudulent or unlawful conduct in the preparation of the transcript . . . Shorthand reporter Perry was not unable to properly record the trial proceedings . . . Fraser was exceptionally and specially competent to transcribe Perry’s notes and did so with fairness and competently. . . . Leavy made no misrepresentations of any kind to the trial judge as to the accuracy or correctness of the transcript as prepared by Fraser. . . . “The instructions given by the trial judge to the jury on May 21, 1948 were correctly and accurately reported in the transcript as prepared by Fraser. . . . The allegation . . . that the trial judge stated to the jury on May 21, when instructing them, that ‘this defendant is one of the wors[t] criminals I have had in my court’ is false and perjurious. . . . “It is not true that the transcript prepared by Fraser had been materially or otherwise altered through the connivance of said Fraser and Leavy . . . [N]ot only Fraser and Leavy, but the trial judge as well, endeavored to and did arrange for and completed the transcript in Chessman’s case in the best of good faith and with diligence and fairness, so that a fair and correct record could be provided the Supreme Court of California upon Chessman’s automatic appeal to that court.’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 52 Cal. 2d 467 - People v. Chessman