United States v. Chrismon’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 1465 · 1992
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably United States v. Salameh (1998), United States v. Magana (1997)
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Young · Colorado v. Connelly · Carnegie v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A diminished mental state is only relevant to the voluntariness inquiry if it made mental or physical coercion by the police more effective.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is relevant only to the extent it made him more susceptible to mentally coercive police tactics”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“coercive police activity is a necessary predicate to the finding that a confession is not 'voluntary'”
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.