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Cheatham v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

53
cited by 53 later decisions
1
states following
April 2011
most recently cited

53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Bradner v. Mitchell (1987), RF & P CORP. v. Little (1994)

53 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 Steinman v. Clinchfield Coal Corp. · Epperson v. DeJarnette · Barnes v. Hampton · Hodge v. American Family Life Assurance Co. of Columbus

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

  1. “A trier of fact must determine the weight of the testimony and the credibility of witnesses, but may not arbitrarily disregard uncontradicted evidence of unimpeached witnesses which is not inherently incredible and not inconsistent with facts in the record, even though such witnesses are interested in the outcome of the case.”
    9 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.