Cheek v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Kelly (1936), Hollins v. State (1978)
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Doc, I am glad you have come; there are two ruffians going up the road, and they have threatened to take my life; they have gone to my house, and I want you to go back with me.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Farnam
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.