State v. Clabourne’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Bible (1993), State v. Amaya-Ruiz (1990)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 120 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 Anders v. California · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Gooding v. United States · Tison v. Arizona
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no substantial evidence to warrant a conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wiley · State v. Mathers“[Cjruelty involves pain and distress visited upon the victim. This distress includes mental anguish____ [Here,] [Webster] suffered both mentally and physically. She was beaten and forced to undress and serve [Clabourne] and his friends drinks. In addition, she was raped over the course of a six hour period. She was obviously in great fear [for] her life as she begged [Clabourne] to protect her. The medical examiner testified that [Webster] had put up a tremendous struggle while being strangled, indicating a good deal of suffering. This evidence was sufficient to establish cruelty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clabourne“When a person is charged with a capital offense the court may on its own initiative and shall upon application of the defendant and a showing that the defendant is financially unable to pay for such services, appoint such investigators and expert witnesses as are reasonably necessary adequately to present his defense at trial and at any subsequent proceeding. Compensation for such investigators and expert witnesses shall be such amount as the court in its discretion deems reasonable and shall be paid by the county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Amaya-Ruiz
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.