Clarke v. Cotton’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2012
22 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 Santosky v. Kramer · Blackburn v. Blackburn · 207 Ga. App. 883 - Clarke v. Cotton · Claxton v. Claxton · 197 Ga. App. 83 - Clarke v. Cox
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE: Evidence that, when weighed against evidence in opposition, will produce in the mind of the trier of fact a firm conviction as to each essential element of the claim and a high probability as to the correctness of the conclusion. Proof by clear and convincing evidence requires a level of proof greater than a preponderance of the evidence, but less than beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[Appellants] acquiesced in the trial court’s instructions authorizing the jury to return a verdict for punitive damages against both [appellants] together, without any distinction between. Accordingly, [appellants] have waived any claim that the trial court’s error in its charge was harmful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even in the absence of a request to charge... the court is obligated to define both standards to avoid misleading or confusing the jury.”
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.