Chisom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2003
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Harrington v. State · Morrison v. State · 2 Tenn. Crim. App. 408 - Burt 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An escape has been described as a departure from lawful custody. In 30A C.J.S. Escape § 2, at 876, we find the following language: “ ‘The crime of escape has been defined as the voluntary departure of a person without force from the lawful custody of an officer or from any place where he is lawfully confined, as the unlawful departure of a prisoner from the limits of his custody or his acts in regaining his liberty before released in due course of law. A prisoner who gains his liberty from lawful custody before he is delivered therefrom by due process of law commits the crime of escape.’ “In 3 Wharton’s Criminal Law and Procedure, sec. 1367, at 758 (1957), it is stated: “*. . . An actual escape, that is, an escape in common meaning, takes place when a prisoner gets out of prison or any place in which he may be confined, or from and out of the authority in whose custody he is, and unlawfully regains his liberty, free from the authority and control of the power entitled to restrain him . . .’ “Black’s Law Dictionary 639-40 (4th ed. 1957), defines the word ‘Escape’ as: “‘The departure or deliverance out of custody of a person who was lawfully imprisoned, before he is entitled to his liberty by the process of law.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burns 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.