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← 409 S.W.3d 529 - Chacon v. State

Chacon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
9
states following
January 2021
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3559 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229B (§ 240a of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Padilla v. Kentucky · Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez · Fong Yue Ting v. United States

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We reject Chacon. Its holding is contrary to Padilla's plain statement that 'when the deportation consequence is truly clear . . . the duty to give correct advice is equally clear.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Padilla does not require that counsel use specific words to communicate to a defendant the consequences of entering a guilty plea”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “he 'would very likely be deported and wouldn't be able to come back.'”
    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.