458 So. 2d 907 - State v. Cheatwood’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 483 So. 2d 953 - State v. Garcia (1986), 568 So. 2d 554 - State v. Byrd (1990)
52 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Patterson v. New York · State v. Roy · United States v. Mitchell · 366 So. 2d 1308 - State v. Allien
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.
“Since `justification' defenses are not based on the nonexistence of any essential element of the offense, but rather on the circumstances which make the accused's conduct excusable on policy grounds, such defenses should be treated as affirmative defenses which the accused must establish by a preponderance of evidence.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. CSD · State v. Wischer“The court found there was a logical distinction between defenses which actually defeat an essential element of the offense, such as intoxication or mistake of fact, which preclude the presence of the mental element of the offense, and those defenses which present exculpatory circumstances that defeat culpability despite the state's proof beyond a reasonable doubt of all of the essential elements. In Cheatwood , the court observed that defenses such as justification are truly”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“justifiable, although otherwise criminal,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woods · State v. CSD
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.