Chavez v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.2d 113 · 1966
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1987
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Barr v. Matteo · Howard v. Lyons · Atlas Life Ins Co v. W I Southern · Barbara A. Nesmith and Richard A. Nesmith v. H. D. Alford · Preble v. Johnson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mere allegations or statements to the effect that the allegedly slanderous statements were made outside the perimeter of the federal officer’s duties do not make them so. Whether the statements made were within the officer’s course of duty is a question of law which we decide on the uncontroverted facts, i. e. see Preble v. Johnson, supra.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“outer perimeter of any office or duty of Kelly as a federal [narcotics] officer.”
1 later decision 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.