State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 33 Cal. 4th 382 - People v. Brown (2004), State v. Coffin (1999)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 53 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Faretta v. California · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia
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.
“The prosecution is allowed reasonable latitude in closing argument. The district court has wide discretion to control closing argument, and there is no error absent an abuse of discretion or prejudice to defendant. . . . The question on appeal is whether the argument served to deprive defendant of a fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Torres · State v. Torres“[w]hether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fry · Fry v. Lopez“[t]he fact that the potential juror's inability to perform his or her duty is based upon religious objection and belief does not violate the religious protections of the New Mexico Constitution, because exclusion from the jury was not based upon religious affiliation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fry
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.