232 W. Va. 480 - State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2021
7 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 873 (§ 503 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 875 (§ 505 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 876 (§ 506 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Katz v. United States · United States v. Leon · Elkins v. United States · McNabb v. United States · Illinois v. Rodriguez
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent a specific grant of power to another branch.... This theory recognizes that each branch of government must have sufficient power to carry out its assigned tasks and that these constitutionally assigned tasks will be performed properly within the governmental branch itself. State v. Clark , 232 W. Va. 480 , 498, 752 S.E.2d 907 , 925 (2013). Further, the”
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.