State v. Chapin’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1977 · most notably Amidon v. State (1977), 2 Cal. App. 2d 141 - People v. Hill (1934)
25 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 State v. Ross · People v. Hawkins · State v. White · People v. Leong Quong · State v. Case
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * there can be no question but that the crime is described with sufficient certainty to identify the act charged to have been committed, and the conviction would be a complete bar to another prosecution for the offense. There was no fatal variance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Director
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.