Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Spears (1953), Hoff v. State (1938)
49 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 Field v. Clark · United States v. Grimaud · Dent v. State of West Virginia · Smith v. State of Alabama · People Ex Rel. Nechamcus v. Warden of the City Prison
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... if the classification is reasonable and embraces all of those of the class therein, then the law is general, not local, and the classification has a reasonable relation to the purpose sought to be attained in other words, the classification must be germane to the subject-matter of the legislation ... The thing to look at is the object to be accomplished, and whether or not the classification is reasonably expected to attain that object and is germane thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.