Clay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 district · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably Tichnell v. State (1980), State v. Fabritz (1975)
2 district · 107 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 Basoff v. State · The People v. Allen · Duren v. State · State v. Studebaker · Hughes 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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e see there is evidence from which the court below may have deduced any one or more of the following factors in finding. guilt: failure to keep a proper lookout; passing recklessly at an intersection; striking a pedestrian in a cross-walk; excessive speed under the circumstances; driving while drinking to the extent of probably affecting one’s judgment and discretion or probably affecting one’s nervous system to the extent that there is a failure of normal coordination, although not amounting to intoxication; and flight.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““These cases have uniformly recognized that in order to constitute gross negligence, the conduct of the defendant must be such as to amount to a wanton or reckless disregard for human life or for the rights of others.” (emphasis supplied).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * [F] light from the scene of a collision without any effort to ascertain the extent of the injuries caused by his act or to aid the injured person may be taken into consideration as evidence of guilt.” Clay v. State, 211 Md. 577, 585 , 128 A. 2d 634 (1957).”
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.