Chavez v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.2d 500 · 1976
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably Holloway v. McElroy (1980), Gates v. Henderson (1977)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 Stone v. Powell · Michigan v. Payne · State v. Chavez
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an opportunity for full and fair litigation of (his) Fourth Amendment claim,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here the State has provided an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim, the Constitution does not require that a state prisoner be granted federal habeas corpus relief on the ground that evidence obtained in an unconstitutional search or seizure was introduced at his trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stocker v. Hutto“(A) federal court need not apply the exclusionary rule on habeas review of a Fourth Amendment claim absent a showing that the state prisoner was denied an opportunity for a full and fair litigation of that claim at trial and on direct review.”
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.