State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably State v. Molina (2006), State v. Ryan (1989)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 State v. Jones · State v. Blunt · State v. Shepard · State v. Fallis · In Re Estate of Marsh
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the main objective of the report was an effort to determine if the assaults could have been avoided by prison authorities. In the report. named inmates told of threats on their lives and sexual pressures by other inmates planning on taking over a cell block by killing guards. The inmates stated that the assaults could have been avoided if the authorities had heeded the inmates.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial court examined the report, trial counsel (before his discharge) examined the report, present counsel has had the opportunity to examine the report, and this court has examined the report. There has been no showing to this court that there is any specific information in the report that would work to defendant’s benefit — either in the determination of his guilt or innocence or in his sentence. We do not find any such evidence on our examination. The effect of the report, had it had any effect in this case (which it did not), should have been to defendant’s further detriment. The trial court, in the exercise of its discretion, properly refused to permit defendant to examine the report. The probability of harm to inmates and further trouble in the prison far outweigh any possible benefit to defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zalme v. Grammer“The Assault of an Inmate and the Near-Fatal Stabbing of Four Prison Guards on June 25, 1981, Could Have Been Prevented,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schaeffer
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.