141 So. 2d 749 - Clemmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1981
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 United States v. Smyth · Sawyer v. State of Florida · Coons v. State · Skipper v. Schumacher · In Re: Report of Grand Jury
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.
“This institution bears a place within our governmental structure and our system of justice on an equal footing with the courts. It has been variously referred to as a coordinate branch of the judiciary, and as an arm, appendage, or adjunct of the circuit court. It is of the people and for the people; they have reserved it in their constitution. It is one of the means provided for the people to participate in popular government and its primary function is to preserve personal and property rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“acting as a public prosecutor for the purpose of ferreting out all crimes, with the members of the inquest being at all times bound to inform the court either singly or collectively their reasons for arriving at their verdict and the evidence upon which it was based.”
1 later decision 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.