Chenault v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1992
16 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 Saucier v. State · Brown v. State · Wilbur v. State · State v. Silverberg
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The indictment then charges that the oath was taken, and that the defendant, being then and there asked certain material questions concerning a fight which took place at the home of Jesse L. Davis on September 24, 1927, did not allege the character of the fighting or whether it was a fight between human beings, or name the persons, or any of them, engaged in the fight. The certain questions asked him are not set forth in substance, except the indictment did state one specific question which was asked, and his answer thereto. ... . [W]e think it would be a better and safer practice, in framing an indictment for perjury, that in alleging false swearing it should set out the particulars of the matter upon which the charge of perjury is predicated, and, in a case like the one before us, should charge that the fight was between certain persons at a given time and place this in order that the defendant should be advised as precisely as necessary what specific things he was to meet in his defense of the case. This is especially true of that part of the indictment which should charge what the truth of the subject-matter of the prosecution is.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It was also held that the averment of falsity in an indictment for perjury must be made expressly and positively, and not by implication; and it was further held that an indictment for perjury must aver what the truth is in relation to the matter of which the perjury is assigned. The indictment before us does not conform to the principles laid down in this case, and we are of the opinion that the demurrer should have been sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hentz v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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