State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1988
7 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 Houpt 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any person confined in any county jail upon conviction for any criminal offense, or held in custody going to such jail, shall break such prison or custody and escape therefrom, he shall upon conviction be punished by confinement and hard labor not exceeding three years, or in a county jail not less than six months, to commence at the expiration of the original term of imprisonment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McGrew““It has been held that a constructive breaking is not a violation of the statute and that something must be done to open a way through confined walls or other obstruction to a free entrance or exit." (Our emphasis.) (p. 819.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McGrew
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.