Chandler v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 16 district · 213 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 448 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Smith v. Phillips (1982), Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk (1982)
100 federal appellate · 16 district · 213 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Furman v. Georgia · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Estes v. Texas · Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc.
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 448 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“impaired ability of the jurors to decide the case on only the evidence before them,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he appropriate safeguard against such prejudice is the defendant’s right to demonstrate that the media’s coverage of his case— be it printed or broadcast — compromised the ability of the particular jury that heard the case to adjudicate fairly. Id. at 575 , 101 S.Ct. at 810 . Since no such showing was made in Chandler, the Court held that the defendants had been awarded a fair trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any criminal case that generates a great deal of publicity presents some risks that the publicity may compromise the right of the defendant to a fair trial. Trial courts must be especially vigilant to guard against any impairment of the defendant’s right to a verdict based solely upon the evidence and the relevant law. 449 U.S. at 574 , 101 S.Ct. at 809 .”
3 later decisions 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.