Cheadle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 1982 · most notably State ex inf. Crow v. Shepherd (1903), State ex rel. Attorney General v. Circuit Court for Eau Claire County (1897)
61 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 People v. Wilson · State v. Morrill · Storey v. People · Little v. State · Wright v. State
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be said, generally, that any willful act done to obstruct, interrupt, or embarrass the proceedings of a court, or to corrupt or impede the due administration of justice, is a contempt of the authority of the court against which such willful act is directed.””
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.