Hughes v. Chesser’s Empirical Analysis
731 F.2d 1489 · 1984
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Snell, Snell v. Tunnell (1990)
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Stump v. Sparkman · Burkes v. Callion
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he report is an integral part of the sentencing process, and in preparing the report the probation officer acts at the direction of the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hart v. Hodges · Allen v. Thompson“[T]his narrow function is intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hart v. Hodges
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.