Chaney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Brown v. Chaney (1984), Cartwright v. Maynard (1987)
12 federal appellate · 89 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 Chimel v. California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Taylor v. Louisiana · Williams v. State of Oklahoma
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case where the law and evidence warrant, in a proper case, could you without doing violence to your conscience, agree to a verdict imposing the death penalty?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Parks v. State · Banks v. State“1. Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; 2. Whether the evidence supports the jury’s or judge’s finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance as enumerated in this act; and 3. Whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar eases, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newsted v. State“The jury was also instructed in accordance with Section 701.11 that the sentence would be life imprisonment if they found no aggravating circumstances or if mitigating circumstances outweighed the aggravating circumstances they found. We hold these instructions gave the jury sufficient guidance to prevent an arbitrary or discriminating application of the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State
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.