State v. Chief Eagle’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 1995
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Jones v. Barnes · United States v. Bailey · Francis v. United States · State v. Reddington
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A man should not be convicted because he is a “bad man”; or, that previously he acted as a “bad man” in a given factual situation for, if convictions were secured in such fashion, the principle that a man may be punished only for those acts with which he was charged, would be violated, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Perkins“I don't know why you are so angry, I got out when I seen you.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chief Eagle v. Solem
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.