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← 377 NW2D 141 - State v. Chief Eagle

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.

  1. “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 dissent
  2. “I don't know why you are so angry, I got out when I seen you.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.