Clanton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1999
15 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 Harris v. State · Roberts v. State · Dees v. State · George v. State · Griffin 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the Clanton case the owner of the building testified that he did not know whether the window through which Clanton entered was closed. The owner merely said that it was the usual practice to close the window before leaving at night. In that case the sheriff testified that when the other workers at the robbed service station were questioned they were not able to say whether or not the window was closed before they left work the evening that the goods were stolen. We said in the Clanton case: "In other words, there is no testimony that it was necessary to raise the window to effect the entrance into the building."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when a window was used has been explained this way: [I]n the Clanton case the owner of the building testified that he did not know whether the window through which Clanton entered was closed. The owner merely said that it was the usual practice to close the window before leaving at night. In that case the sheriff testified that when the other workers at the robbed service station were questioned they were not able to say whether or not the window was closed before they left work the evening that the goods were stolen. We said in the Clanton case:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldman v. State
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.