Clark v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
April 2006
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Lowe v. Commonwealth · Bobo v. Commonwealth · Clark 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right to prepare for trial ... and to ascertain the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nobrega v. Com.“in Virginia, no authority exists permitting such discovery”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nobrega v. Com.
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.