Ex Parte Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2009 · most notably Briggs v. State (1990), Black v. State (1991)
30 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wainwright v. Sykes · Malloy v. Hogan · Engle v. Isaac · Estelle v. Smith
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a defect of constitutional magnitude has not been established at the time of the trial, the failure of counsel to object does not constitute waiver.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Powell v. State · Black v. State“"[A] defendant has not waived his right to assert a constitutional violation by failing to object at trial if at the time of his trial the right had not been recognized."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mathews v. State · James v. State“where a constitutional claim is so novel that its legal basis is not reasonably available to counsel, a defendant has cause for his failure to raise the claim in accordance with applicable state procedures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mathews 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.