Chestnut v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
September 1990
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Hewitt v. Helms · B. P. O. E. Lodge No. 2043 of Brunswick v. Keith H. Ingraham · Parrott v. State · Perkins v. Eskridge
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The powers of this government shall be divided into three distinct departments, the legislative, executive and judicial.... No person or persons, belonging to one of these departments, shall exercise any of the powers properly belonging to either of the others....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Littlefield v. Caton
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.