United States v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 402 · 1977
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1997 · most notably United States v. Johnson (1978), Sovereign News Co. v. United States (1982)
15 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Janis · Enochs v. Williams Packing & Navigation Co. · Barrett v. United States · Midgett v. Slayton
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“callous disregard for the constitutional rights”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the Government comes by evidence of tax obligations through means which callously disregard a citizen's constitutional rights, the naked possession of such information is not a basis for retention and use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statutes governing wiretaps expressly allow evidence [legitimately] * * * gathered in a criminal proceeding to be used in a civil tax assessment suit.”
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.