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← 2016 MT 151 - State v. T. Cheetham Sr.

State v. T. Cheetham Sr.’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

24 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · State v. Gallagher · Petition of Gillham · State v. Sartain · State v. Craig

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A claim of ineffective assistance based on differences between the defendant and his counsel about trial strategy and production of evidence is available in, and better suited for, a postconviction proceeding where counsel may divulge more freely—with appropriate safeguards (In re Gillham, 216 Mont. 279, 282 , 704 P.2d 1019, 1021 (1985))—his or her communications with the defendant and strategic decisions.”
    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.