LaChappelle v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 560 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2021
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Davis v. Alaska · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Illinois v. Allen · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the exercise of the court’s residual power to ensure a just trial, and protect jurors and witnesses, a judge may in very rare circumstances feel it essential to confer with a juror or witness on the record but outside the presence of others, including the defendant. One example of such a conference might be where a juror or witness, having been threatened, wished to speak with the judge privately about the threat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every aspect of a judicial proceeding, however, is not a stage of the trial at which an accused must be present. Given the confrontation clause’s central concern with enabling the defendant to assist with his own defense, a right of “presence [is not guaranteed where the defendant’s] presence would be useless, or the benefit but a shadow.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A central principle derived from the confrontation clause [of the Sixth Amendment] is the defendant's right to participate in his own defense.”
1 later decision 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.