Clark v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2020
1 district · 13 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 Deputy v. du Pont · Helvering v. Hallock · State v. Menzies · State v. Larsen · World Peace Movement of America v. Newspaper Agency Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his court has `not hesitated ... to reverse case law when we are firmly convinced that we have erred earlier.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Our primary goal in interpreting statutes is to give effect to the legislative intent as evidenced by the plain language in light of the purpose the statute was meant to achieve.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“requires only the filing of a petition for adjudication of marriage within one year after the termination of the relationship,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Greaves v. Baker
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.