State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Mason (1982), State v. Anonymous (1979)
3 federal appellate · 82 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · McMann v. Richardson
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably competent or within the range of competence displayed by lawyers with ordinary training and skill in the criminal law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]ross-examination is a sharp two-edged sword and more criminal cases are won by not cross-examining adverse witnesses, or by a very selective and limited cross-examination of such witnesses, than are ever won by demolishing a witness on cross-examination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the lack of competency contributed to his conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sullivan
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.