Cherry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2009
21 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 Turner v. State · Yates 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now what defenses are available to a person in a case like this? Number one, alibi, I was somewhere else, I was with someone else.” (Emphasis added). Cherry v. State, 507 S.W.2d at 550 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Marable v. State · Cook v. State“I beleve [sic] that y’aU know that the real reason we tried this ease was not to determine guilt or innocence, but to determine what kind of punishment that is going to be set in this particular kind of crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly 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.