Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1946
11 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 Williams v. State · Ring v. State · Moore v. State · Barling 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think Section 6 should not be so construed, and that its proper construction, to give effect to the manifest intent of the Legislature, requires the word ‘and’ in Section 6 to be read as ‘or.’ Each of the first four sections of this act defines certain actions which are denounced as unlawful, and it is quite obvious that the Legislature intended to make all the actions defined in each of said sections, respectively, unlawful. Each section of the act is complete in itself, and while it would not be impossible for a person to violate all the provisions of sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, it would be a strained construction of the act to say that a completed crime was not committed until all four sections had been violated. It is a settled rule of construction that a statute must be read as a whole to ascertain its meaning, and to give effect to the meaning of a statute thus ascertained courts are quite frequently required to eliminate or to substitute words for those employed by the Legislature.” (Clark v. State, 155 Ark. 16 , 243 S. W. 865, 866 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holder
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.