Chavez v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
275 F.2d 813 · 1960
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably 18 Cal. 3d 538 - People v. Zamora (1976), Hernandez v. United States (1962)
19 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Manton · Cramer v. United States · United States v. Rosenberg · Carter v. United States · Pon Wing Quong v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be a perfectly innocent act standing by itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The law has long recognized the fact that it is difficult when in the courtroom for anyone, juror or not, to disregard that which he has heard. Yet, if evidence is improperly placed before the jury, the least a defendant can expect from the trial judge in correcting the error is a firm, definite, and unequivocal instruction to the jury that it is their duty to disregard it, absolutely and completely, and that it is his opinion they can and must do so.””
1 later decision 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.