Commonwealth v. Chaitt’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Elkins v. United States (1960), State v. Carbone (1962)
6 federal appellate · 33 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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“always followed `the fundamental principle of the common law that the admissibility of evidence is not affected by the illegality of the means by which it was obtained.'”
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.