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Chauncey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1900

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
October 1980
most recently cited

7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1980

7 state decisions

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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 Woodbury v. State · Carr v. State · Ex parte King · Colly 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The act is in line with our other statutes against false pretenses, fraud, cheats, acts to injure and the like. One who violates the act, is imprisoned not for the debt he owes the proprietor, and not to make him pay it, but to punish him for a wrong he has perpetrated, which is made a crime. . . . ””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “This statute is analogous in its essential features to the one making it a crime to obtain property by false pretenses . . . the two belonging to the same family, and are closely allied in nature, character, and purpose.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Deception and injury are of the very essence of the crime. . . .”
    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.