Clay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2013
18 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 Ezell v. State · Monts v. State · Duren v. State · Thomas v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have held that the offense of burglary is complete' even though the intention to commit a felony is not consumated, Thomas v. State, 107 Ark. 469 , 155 S. W. 1165 , and eases cited therein. * * * As stated in Duren v. State, 156 Ark. 252 , 245 S. W. 823 , ‘It is not essential that the state prove by direct evidence an intention to commit a felony, for this fact may be, and generally is, established by proof of circumstances which indicate the intention of the burglar. . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scates v. State
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.