State v. Chinn’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. Issa (2001), Mitchell Warden v. Esparza (2003)
9 federal appellate · 134 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Lockett v. Ohio · Skipper v. South Carolina
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lack of knowledge concerning the specific facts a bill of particulars would have provided him actually prejudiced him in his ability to fairly defend himself.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the errors requiring resentencing occur[ ] after the close of the mitigation phase of the trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial court is to proceed on remand from the point at which the error occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.