Chessman v. Teets’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
182 federal appellate · 16 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 363 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Irvin v. Dowd (1961)
182 federal appellate · 16 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedChessman v. Teets (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Brown v. Allen · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Mooney v. Holohan
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 363 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On many occasions this Court has found it necessary to say that the requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment must be respected, no matter how heinous the crime in question and no matter how guilty an accused may ultimately be found to be after guilt has been established in accordance with the procedure demanded by the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly this Court's previous denials of certiorari, 350 U.S. 840 [ 71 S.Ct. 29 , 95 L.Ed. 616 ]; 341 U.S. 929 [ 71 S.Ct. 800 , 95 L.Ed. 1359 ]; 343 U.S. 915 [ 72 S.Ct. 650 , 96 L.Ed. 1330 ]; 346 U.S. 916 [ 74 S.Ct. 278 , 98 L.Ed. 412 ]; 348 U.S. 864 [ 75 S.Ct. 85 , 99 L.Ed. 681 ], do not foreclose us from now granting appropriate relief. Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443 [ 73 S.Ct. 397 , 97 L.Ed. 469 ]. And it may be noted that it was not until the present proceedings in the District Court that the facts surrounding the settlement of the state court record were fully developed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“I agree that in a case like this it matters not whether the petitioner is guilty or innocent, whether his complaint is timely or tardy. We should respect a man’s constitutional right whenever or however it is presented to us. My difficulty here is not with any principle the Court announces. My dissent is based on the conviction that, in substance, the requirements of due process have been fully satisfied, that to require more is to exalt a technicality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.