Chavez v. Dickson’s Empirical Analysis
280 F.2d 727 · 1960
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1992 · most notably Townsend v. Sain (1963), United States of America Ex Rel. John McGrath v. J. E. Lavallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York (1963)
70 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 Rochin v. People of California · Brown v. Allen · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Palko v. State of Connecticut
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in such a manner as amounts to a disregard of that fundamental fairness essential to the very concept of justice that due process is offended.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]tate remedies will not be deemed to have been exhausted within the meaning of 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 if the failure to obtain a final state adjudication was due to inexcusable nonconformity with state procedural requisites.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is difficult to perceive how this court can consider whether the state construction of the statute is arbitrary and unreasonable without in effect reviewing the correctness of the state court’s interpretation of section 189. This, as noted in footnote 3, is not our function.” ( 280 F.2d 731 ).”
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.