United States of America v. Steven Chestaro’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.3d 600 · 1999
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Passaro (2009), United States v. Hertular (2009)
34 federal appellate · 1 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 Strickland v. Washington · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Jones v. United States · United States v. Watts
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) simple assault, which, in accord with the common-law definition, does not involve touching; (2) `all other cases,' meaning assault that does involve contact but does not result in bodily injury or involve a weapon; and (3) assaults resulting in bodily injury or involving a weapon.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“committed by either a willful attempt to inflict injury upon the person of another, or by a threat to inflict injury upon the person of another which, when coupled with an apparent present ability, causes a reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“condition them on further facts ... that seem quite as important as the elements in the principal paragraph.”
2 later decisions 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.