Clanton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably California v. Ramos (1983), LeVasseur v. Commonwealth (1983)
6 federal appellate · 53 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 Stamper v. Commonwealth · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Liepelt · Coppola v. Commonwealth · Turner v. Commonwealth · Waye v. Commonwealth
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct in committing the offense was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman, in that it involved torture, depravity of mind or aggravated battery to the victim,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“admonition of [a] trial court in the presence of [a] jury [makes] it known to the jury that the court [is] not satisfied as to the propriety of [an] argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burns v. Com.“Do not sentence the other inmates of the Virginia State Prison to death at the hands of Earl Clanton. Don't give him the chance to take somebody else's life,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Compton
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.