Cheney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably United States v. Gadison (1993), Skillern v. State (1995)
2 federal appellate · 68 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 Mills 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he offense is complete once the written, deceptive statement relevant to obtaining property or credit is made”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Donaldson · Jones 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.