Chizen v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.2d 560 · 1986
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Jeronimo (2005), United States v. Cortez (1992)
66 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart · Blackledge v. Allison · MacHibroda v. United States · Marshall v. Lonberger
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]olemn declarations in open court carry a strong presumption of verity[,]”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In assessing the voluntariness of the plea, statements made by a criminal defendant contemporaneously with his plea should be accorded great weight.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the plea represents a voluntary and intelligent choice among the alternative courses of action open to the defendant.”
2 later decisions 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.