Chaffin v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Manders v. Lee (2003), Grech v. Clayton County (2003)
13 federal appellate · 14 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 Board of Commissioners of Randolph County v. Wilson · Wolfe v. Huff
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sheriff Chaffin is an elected constitutional officer,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“His statutory duties are defined in OCGA § 15-16-10, and include not only the enumerated duties such as maintaining the jail and serving warrants, but also those duties that “necessarily appertain to his office,” such as the power to make arrests, to maintain the peace and to enforce the law. OCGA § 15-16-10 (a) (8); Wolfe v. Huff, 232 Ga. 44 ( 205 SE2d 254 ) (1974).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`the commissioners could not divest the sheriff of his power and duty to enforce the laws and preserve the peace,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.