Cheek v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 559 · 1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2021
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Davis v. Alaska · Chambers v. Mississippi · Berger v. California · United States v. Garcia
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court had limited cross-examination of the government witness in order to protect him from the embarrassment of having his prior juvenile record exposed. The sole interest served by that ruling was that of the witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schreiner“[r]eversal for a denial of the right to show bias on cross-examination ... requires both an affirmative assertion of that right and a knowing decision by the judge to deny or limit it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he competing policy at stake here is markedly different from that which the Davis Court found subordinate to the right of cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schreiner
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.