People v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably People v. Quintana (1983), People v. Walker (1983)
1 federal appellate · 49 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Faretta v. California · Simmons v. United States · Griffin v. California · Mullaney v. Wilbur
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intolerable tension between two constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If, upon the trial of the issues upon the substantive offense charged [i.e., the trial phase), the defendant testifies in his or her own defense and, after having denied the previous conviction [at arraignment], admits that he or she has been previously convicted as alleged, the trial judge ... shall, in any sentencing hearing, consider any admissions of prior convictions elicited from the defendant in connection with his or her testimony on the substantive offense only as they affect the defendant's credibility. In any sentencing hearing, the prosecution shall be required to meet its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant's prior convictions by evidence independent of the defendant's testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Ziglar“fundamental fairness requires no less than strict bifurcation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Porter
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.