Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2020
15 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 · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas · McGuire v. United States · Warden, Nevada State Prison v. Lyons
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n actual conflict of interest which adversely affects a lawyer's performance will result in a presumption of prejudice to the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some attorneys might conclude that there is less incentive to interpose every available defense [in the criminal case], as an incarcerated client would be less apt to vigorously oppose an entry of default and subsequent enforcement of the civil judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adversely affect the manner in which at least some cases are conducted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.