State v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Ben-Mont Corporation (1994), State v. Parker (1988)
57 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 United States v. Frady · Williams v. People of State of New York · Cupp v. Naughten · Townsend v. Burke · Lascaris v. Shirley
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is your duty to reconcile conflicting testimonies if you can, upon the legal theory all witnesses are presumed to have testified truthfully. If you cannot so reconcile the testimony then you will have to determine which of the witnesses is entitled to greater credit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Snide
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.