United States v. Chamness’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.3d 724 · 2006
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 223 Ill. 2d 109 - People v. McCarty (2006), United States v. Panaigua-Verdugo (2008)
19 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Booker · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United States v. Mykytiuk · United States v. Blalock · United States v. Ewing
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, there were several people at a risk of some type of harm, namely Chamness, the police officers who arrived on the scene, the staff of the laboratory who cleaned up the site, the owner of the trailer who called police, and Chamness’s cohorts, which includes those who fled and those who were apprehended. We further find these lives were placed at a substantial risk of harm.... Given their close proximity within the trailer and their proximity to the actual gassing operation, the individuals were placed at a substantial risk of harm, namely serious injuries from an explosion or a fire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A finding of fact is clearly erroneous only if, based upon the entire record, we are left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Coleman fuel is flammable and can be explosive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.