United States v. Chatman’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.2d 565 · 1977
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. White (1981), United States v. Hillison (1984)
38 federal appellate · 5 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 Terry v. Ohio · Beck v. State of Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · United States v. Robinson · Patterson v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Founded suspicion based on the facts then known to the agent justified the interrogation, and it was not improper, in absence of protest or coercive circumstances, to arrange that it take place free from public view with its attendant embarrassment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clandestinely engaging in illegal business of some kind”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. U.S. v. Price
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.