Cheney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably 2006 OK CR 19 - Hogan v. State (2006), Castro v. Ward (1998)
15 federal appellate · 31 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 Strickland v. Washington · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Beck v. Alabama
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent evidence of conscious physical suffering of the victim prior to death, the required torture or serious physical abuse standard is not met.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pavatt v. Royal · Pavatt v. Royal“Oklahoma uses the M'Naghten test to determine the issue of sanity at the time of the crime. This Court has held that the M'Naghten insanity test, as applied in Oklahoma, has two prongs. Under the first prong, the defendant is considered insane if he is suffering from a mental disability such that he does not know his acts are wrong and he is unable to distinguish right from wrong with respect to his acts. Under the second prong, the defendant is considered insane if suffering from a disability of reason or disease of the mind such that he does not understand the nature or consequences of his acts or omissions. The defendant need only satisfy one of these prongs in order to be found not guilty by reason of insanity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The mental torture element is confined to cases in which the victim is terrorized for a significant period of time before death.”
2 later decisions 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.