Chavis v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
638 F.2d 534 · 1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2021
6 federal appellate · 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 Neil v. Biggers · Stone v. Powell · Cataldo v. United States · Morris v. Gressette · United States v. Coades
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While an inaccurate description may be an indication of unreliability, the absence of a detailed description in a situation where prompt police work permits little time for detailed inquiry does not carry the same connotation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dickerson v. Fogg“`immediacy makes it much more likely that the witness will have a fresh recollection of the appearance of the suspect and hence that the identification will be accurate'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McFowler v. Jaimet
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.