Clay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 855 - Nino v. Gladys R. (1970), State v. Rogers (1969)
51 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 Bram v. United States · Ziang Sung Wan v. United States · Nickels v. State · McNish v. State · Holland 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * * * * "It is well established at common law that a child under the age of 7 years is conclusively presumed to be incapable of committing a crime; the common law rule raises a presumption of incapacity of an infant between the ages of 7 and 14; and the presumption is that the incapacity after 7 years of age decreases with the progress of his years." * * * * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. R. D. C. v. State · RDC v. State
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.