United States v. Chaney’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 571 · 1971
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably United States v. Isaacs (1974), United States v. Dansker (1976)
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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. § 2113
Relies on Griffin v. California · Williams v. United States · Moore v. United States · United States v. Allard · Fitzsimmons v. Yeager
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'whether the language used was manifestly intended or was of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such as would lead the jury to conclude that the prosecutor was commenting on the failure of the accused to testify.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An examination of all the evidence, including that recounted above, leads us to the conclusion that the evidence against the defendant[s] * * made out a strong enough case to permit a jury to find the defendant[s] guilty.”
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.