Clemons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 1985 · most notably Roan v. State (1932), Ex Parte Kennedy (1985)
56 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 Winslow v. State · Holland v. State · Fonville v. State · Ogletree v. State · Commonwealth v. Farrell
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To authorize a witness to give an opinion as an expert, it must appear that, by study, practice, experience, or observation as to the particular subject, he has acquired a knowledge beyond that of ordinary witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““I charge you as a matter of law that the corpus delicti has been proven in this case, provided you believe the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson 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.