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Clemons v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1910

Citation profile

56
cited by 56 later decisions
1
states following
March 1985
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. ““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 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.