State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably State v. Schoonover (2006), State v. Sullivan & Sullivan (1978)
49 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 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland · In re Ruffalo · State v. Severns · State v. Moffitt · State v. Fisher
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the felony murder rule is to relieve the state of the burden of proving premeditation and malice when the victim’s death is caused by the killer while he is committing another felony. The rationale being that the killer’s malignant purpose is established by proof of the collateral felony. . . .” (204 Kan. pp. 43, 44.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilson“" Murder in the first degree is the malicious killing of a human being committed willfully, deliberately and with premeditation or committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any felony. " (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goodseal
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.