State v. Clifton’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Bell v. State of Maryland (1964), Kirkwood v. Provident Savings Bank (1954)
23 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 United States v. Reisinger · Great Northern Railway Company v. United States · Ireland v. Shipley · Board of Dental Examiners v. Lazzell · Green v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the repeal of a statute prevents any further proceedings thereunder at common law, it is well established that where there is a saving clause granting to the state or federal government the right to punish for offenses committed before the repeal, the general rule is rescinded. The saving clause may be contained in the repealing statute, or it may be a general provision which applies to all penal statutes. In either case, it has the effect of continuing the repealed statute in force for the purpose of punishing for the offenses committed prior to the repeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell 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.