Chapman v. Varela’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Las Cruces Professional Fire Fighters & International Ass'n of Fire Fighters v. City of Las Cruces · Brown v. Cobb · Matter of Ferrill · Doughty v. Morris · Roberts Oil Co. v. Transamerica Insurance
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“give no deference to the district court's conclusions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bounds 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.