State v. Chesley’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2021
12 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 Davidson v. Dill · State v. Weldele · State v. Brander · 136 Cal. App. 544 - Woodman v. Hemet Union High School District · State v. McNally
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent explicit authorization from the legislature, we conclude that the judiciary has no power to expunge criminal records. Expungement of such records is a matter of legislative discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vasquez 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.