State v. Chatman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Blackwelder (1983), State v. Gardner (1984)
2 federal appellate · 119 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 Simmons v. United States · State v. Ahearn · Fowler v. North Carolina · State v. Taylor · State v. Easterling
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“erred in finding as factors in aggravation that the sentence was necessary to deter others, and that a lesser sentence would unduly depreciate the seriousness of the crime. These two factors fall within the exclusive realm of the legislature and were presumably considered in determining the presumptive sentence for this offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“c. The defendant is a dangerous sex offender whose history makes it necessary to segregate him for an extended term from the public for its safety and protection. d. The sentence pronounced by the court is necessary to deter others from committing the same crime. e. A lesser sentence than that pronounced by the court will unduly depreciate the seriousness of the defendants [sic] crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by eliciting evidence ... which he might have rightfully excluded if the same evidence had been offered by the State.”
2 later decisions 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.