State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 8 Cal. 4th 587 - People v. Leahy (1994), Hulse v. State, Department of Justice (1998)
73 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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. Superior Court · Barmeyer v. Montana Power Co. · State v. Swanson · 145 Ill. App. 3d 996 - People v. Vega · State, City of Bozeman v. Heth
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walters · State v. Walters““Unless an exaggerated popular opinion of the accuracy of the particular technique makes its use prejudicial or likely to mislead the jury, the better approach is to admit all relevant scientific evidence in the same manner as other expert testimony and allow its weight to be attacked by cross-examination or refutation. [Citation omitted.]” 234 Mont, at 227 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Witte · State v. Walters“In the HGN test, the driver is asked to cover one eye and focus the other on an object held by the officer at the driver's eye level. As the officer moves the object gradually out of the driver's field of vision toward his ear, he watches the driver's eyeball to detect involuntary jerking. [1]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Finch · State v. Michaud
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.