Chester v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2007
20 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Carnley v. Cochran · Burgett v. Texas · Williams v. State · Scobie v. Page
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant raised the defense of involuntary escape or escape under duress and on appeal cites in support People v. Webster (sic), 45 Cal.Rptr. 114 (Cal.App.1965). That case in considering a defense of involuntary escape because of the prisoner’s fear for his life held: “ While the contemplation of such an eventuality strains the imagination, such a situation might possibly arise; but, if so, the prisoner who was thus escaping against his will would owe a duty to use reasonable efforts to render himself again into the custody of the law enforcement agency at the first available opportunity. The instruction states good law; it was properly given in the circumstances.’ “We observe that the instruction used in People v. Webster, supra, at page 117, would be appropriate under a proper fact situation.” (Emphasis ours)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State · Grubb v. State““Any prisoner in either the State Penitentiary or State Reformatory sentenced thereto who escapes from such prison, either while confined therein, or while permitted to be at large as a trusty, is punishable by imprisonment in such prison for a term not less than two (2) years or more than seven (7) years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goodson v. State““We therefore hold it is improper to charge ‘after former conviction of a felony’ under the habitual criminal statute, 21 O.S.Supp.1970, § 51, when charging an accused with the crime of escape from the penitentiary as provided in 21 O.S.1961, § 443.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herrod v. State
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.