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Clausell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “[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 majority
  2. “[a] defense counsel's use of objections lies within his or her discretion”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.