Chambers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district · 190 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Clewis v. State (1996), Rachal v. State (1996)
1 district · 190 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Lockhart v. Nelson · Chambers v. State · Briggs v. State · Long v. State
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“believe all, some, or none of the testimony.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Gonzales v. State“[T]his was not a situation in which the only evidence of guilt was the prior statement. There was additional circumstantial evidence from other witnesses which tended to corroborate the child's prior videotaped statement. Thus, the jury was not placed in the position of speculating whether, in the face of her recantation, there was sufficient evidence to show appellant committed the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bermudez v. State“it is questionable whether this was a true repudiation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bermudez 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.