State v. Chatfield’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Egan · State v. Vaughn · Stuyvesant Insurance v. United States · 644 So. 2d 560 - AMERICAN BANKERS INS. v. Monroe County · 9 Kan. App. 2d 53 - State v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I/we the undersigned do hereby voluntarily agree to act as surety for the above named defendant, in order to secure his/her release pending trial. ]/we understand that the purpose of this appearance bond is to insure the attendance of the defendant at all court ordered proceedings, and that, as surety it is my/our responsibility to know when and where the defendant is to appear. In addition, we agree to the following: 1. If the defendant fails to appear at a scheduled court proceeding I/wa will be liable to the State of Vermont. . . . I/we understand that if the defendant obeys all the conditions of his/her release and appears before the Court when ordered to do so, then this appearance bond will be void and any deposit returned. I also understand that any deposit will not be returned until this case is closed and the defendant surrenders himselfiherself to serve any sentence that may be imposed or until further order of the Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spitsyn
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.