State v. Chavis’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2014
4 federal appellate · 6 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 Castor v. United States · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · State v. Hill · State v. Ham · State v. Gilbert
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When several people pursue a common design to commit an unlawful act and each takes the part agreed upon or assigned to him in an effort to insure the success of the common undertaking, the act of one is the act of all and all are presumed to be present and guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Catoe
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.