Chappell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2000
10 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 Jordan v. Loftin
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is nothing in the indictment to show that the persons engaged in the affair were not merely indulging in mischievous sport, instead of being actuated animo furandi.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frye v. State“by putting him in such fear as [to cause him] unwillingly to part with the same”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“against his will, by violence to his person”
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.