State v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1993 · most notably State v. Manus (1979), State v. Noble (1977)
30 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 Pate v. Robinson · Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · State v. Roy · State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Greenwood · State v. Upton
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he defendant must have had sufficient mental capacity at the time he made the statement, to be conscious of the physical acts performed by him, to retain them in his memory and to state them with reasonable accuracy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ruiz
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.