Clemens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably State v. Stevens (1965), 75 Wis. 2d 371 - Hart v. State (1977)
27 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 The People v. . Buddensieck · Johnson v. State · Astin v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · Hill v. State · Pinoza v. Northern Chair Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Gross negligence has received a very certain and definite meaning in the jurisprudence of this state .... It is not inadvertence in any degree; there must be present either wilful intent to injure or that wanton and reckless disregard of the rights of others and the consequences of the act to himself as well as to others which the law deems equivalent to an intent to injure.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Both the accused and his counsel were vitally interested in this verdict, and both had received due notice of the agreement of the jury and the readiness of the court to receive the verdict. It would be unfair, under the circumstances, to expect the court to Avait an unreasonable length of time. Both the accused and counsel absented themselves voluntarily, and we are therefore of the opinion that the right of the accused and his counsel to be present at the time of the reception of the verdict and the right to poll the jury, under the decisions of this court in Stoddard v. State, 132 Wis. 520 , 112 N. W. 453 , 13 Ann. Gas. 1211; Hill v. State, 17 Wis. 675 , 86 Am. D. 736 , was waived."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Knutson““(2) The minimum requirements for head lamps on any automobile or other similar motor vehicle, except motorcycles, while being driven upon the highway, shall be such as to enable the driver to clearly distinguish a person, vehicle or other substantial object two hundred feet ahead, and the design, adjustment and operation of such head lamps shall be such as to avoid dangerous glare or dazzle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kleist v. Cohodas
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.