Clausell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Clyde Hayden Sr. (2008), State v. McDonald (2013)
40 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 Strickland v. Washington · Berger v. United States · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Starnes v. United States · Briggs Transportation Co. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is also not beyond the realm of reasonableness that defense counsel would not object during certain times of the trial so as not to confuse the jury or bring undue attention to the prosecution's case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Main“[a] defense counsel's use of objections lies within his or her discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Main
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.