Commonwealth v. Cheeks’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2018
1 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 Rounds v. Commonwealth · Gilley v. Commonwealth · Singleton v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Ward · Woosley v. Commonwealth
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurisdiction to preside over the prosecution of offenses committed in this state is vested in the circuit courts.... The proper forum in which the case is to be prosecuted is the circuit court in the county or city in which the offense was committed. In the past, it has been erroneously stated that a circuit court has no “jurisdiction” over the prosecution of an offense that has been wholly committed in another county. The circuit courts of this state are never without “jurisdiction” to preside over the prosecution of offenses committed in Kentucky: rather, KRS 452.510 stipulates that “venue” is improper in the circuit court of a county other than that in which the offense has been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Venue” then is merely a statutory prescription that the prosecution be in the county in which the offense has been committed and that the prosecution is in a court which has “jurisdiction” to preside over the case, i.e. the circuit court of that county. The statutory prescription also requires proof by the prosecutor that the offense did in fact occur in the county in which the case is being prosecuted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen the offense is homicide, either the death of the victim or the bodily impact causing death constitutes a 'result' within the meaning of subsection (1)(a). If the body of a homicide victim is found within this state, it shall be prima facie evidence that the result occurred within the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cutlip v. Smith
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.