United States v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 1326 · 1989
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 135 Ill. 2d 252 - People v. Redd (1990), United States v. Ross (1994)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Ohio v. Roberts · Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Nixon · California v. Green
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the prosecution must show that the out-of-court declarant is unavailable to testify despite its good faith efforts to obtain his presence at trial. Second, the prosecution must show that out-of-court statements bear sufficient indicia of reliability to provide the jury with an adequate basis for evaluating their truth.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) whether the truth of the out-of-court statements is corroborated by other evidence [citation omitted]; (2) the extent of the out-of-court declarant’s personal knowledge of the defendant’s identity and role in the crime; (3) the possibility that the statements are founded on faulty recollection; and (4) the circumstances under which the statements were made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buttrum v. Black“(A) The statement is offered as evidence of a material fact; (B) the statement is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence which the proponent can procure through reasonable efforts; and (C) the general purposes of these rules and the interests of justice will best be served by admission of the statement into evidence.”
1 later decision 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.