State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably State v. Murray (2008), State v. Drayton (2008)
25 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · United States v. Hale · State v. Deatore · United States v. Fairchild
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Following his arrest and the Miranda warnings, a defendant is under no duty to volunteer his exculpatory story.” Syl. ¶ 1. “It is constitutionally impermissible for a state prosecutor to impeach a defendant’s alibi defense, which is told for the first time at trial, when the defendant carried on limited discussion with police after his arrest, but was silent as to exculpatory matters subsequently asserted at trial.” Syl. V 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Nott““We interpret the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Doyle to settle the question so as to make it constitutionally impermissible for a state prosecutor to impeach a defendant’s exculpatory story told for the first time at the trial by cross-examining him as to his post-arrest silence after receiving the warnings required by Miranda . . . .” (p. 730.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Taylor
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.