Chipman v. Mercer’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 528 · 1980
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably United States v. Payne (1991), United States v. McClintock (1984)
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Davis v. Alaska · Alford v. United States · Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG, Inc. · Ohio v. Gallagher · Helfat v. Securities & Exchange Commission
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Davis v. Alaska and our own precedents do not require a trial court to permit cross-examination on topics of very slight or marginal relevance simply upon the theory that bias or prejudice might be disclosed.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'denied sufficient information to appraise the biases and motivations of the witness.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“minimal relevance that the trial court would be justified [ ] in totally prohibiting cross-examination about [it].”
5 later decisions 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.