Clark v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 1957
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Maulding v. Commonwealth · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Terrell v. Commonwealth · McCurry v. Commonwealth · Adkins 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of instructions is to enable the jury; to apply the law to the facts adduced on the trial.; A self-defense instruction should never be given' when there is no evidence to authorize it. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.