State v. Cheatham’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably State v. Weaver (1995), State v. Cox (1961)
27 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 State v. Frazier · State v. Brinkley · State v. Turner · State v. Loston · State v. Berry
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who inflicts an injury on another is deemed by the law to be guilty of homicide if the injury contributes mediately or immediately to the death of such other. The fact that other causes contribute to the death does not relieve the actor of responsibility, provided such other causes are not the proximate cause of the death.” State v. Cheatham, 340 S.W.2d 16, 20 (Mo.1960), quoting 26 Am.Jur., § 48 at 191.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fierro
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.