Cheney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Lopez v. State (1988), Marsillett v. State (1986)
24 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 Wagner v. State · Terry v. State · Morgan v. State · Gilmore v. State · Inman v. State
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a defendant is innocent, he should not be convicted erroneously; but if a defendant is guilty, he should not be acquitted erroneously. By acquittal of the guilty, the contempt of the law is aroused among the criminal classes and the safeguards of society are weakened.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corbin v. State“Any error in the giving ... of an instruction is harmless error if the conviction is clearly sustained by the evidence and the jury could not properly have found otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morrison 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.