Chambers v. Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1,898 federal appellate · 202 district · 4,836 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,747 later decisions (99 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Wolff v. McDonnell (1974), Wainwright v. Sykes (1977)
1,898 federal appellate · 202 district · 4,836 state decisions — followed in 50 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.
Relationships
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Bruton v. United States · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green
Cited together with Washington v. Texas · Davis v. Alaska · Chapman v. State of California · Strickland v. Washington · Rock v. Arkansas
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 8,747 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Few rights are more fundamental than that of an accused to present witnesses in his own defense.”
286 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right of an accused in a criminal trial to due process is, in essence, the right to a fair opportunity to defend against the State's accusations.”
181 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]egardless of whether the proffered testimony comes within Georgia's hearsay rule, under the facts of this case its exclusion constituted a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
12 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.