Clark v. Tansy’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Cunningham (2000), State v. White (1999)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 73 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Sanders v. United States · Gardner v. Florida · Jurek v. Texas · Davis v. United States
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b] ecause the length of incarceration facing a defendant if he is not sentenced to death is accurate and relevant information that must be presented to a capital jury to rebut the prosecution 's case for death, ... the trial court has no discretion to delay imposing sentence on noncapital charges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“' The State thus succeeded in securing a death sentence on the ground, at least in part, of petitioner 's future dangerousness, while at the same time concealing from the sentencing jury the true meaning of its noncapital sentencing alternatives.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[l]aw triumphs when the natural impulses aroused by a shocking crime yield to the safeguards which our civilization has evolved for an administration of criminal justice at once rational and effective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fry v. Lopez
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.