Chance v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1212 · 1976
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably United States Hoover v. Franzen (1982), Inge v. Procunier (1985)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 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
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Robert J. Grundler and Joseph L. Jelly v. State of North Carolina · State v. Thompson · State v. Williams · Canty v. Board of Education
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Normally, the admissibility of evidence, the sufficiency of evidence, and instruction to the jury in state trials are matters of state law and procedure not involving federal constitutional issues. It is only in circumstances impugning fundamental fairness or infringing specific constitutional protections that a federal question is presented,”
2 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.