Chatman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1982
3 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 166 So. 2d 131 - Lee v. State · 148 So. 2d 526 - Child v. Wainwright
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that in accordance with our decision in Lee et al. v. State, 166 So.2d 131 , once the plea of guilty was entered it was the judge’s sole responsibility to fix the punishment. * * * “The court after an extensive pre-sentence investigation and an investigation by the Parole Commission condemned the defendant to death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boggs
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.