Clay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
June 1987
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. State · Wells v. State · The People v. Scott · Gayer v. State · Critchlow 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the statute under consideration the legislature has deliberately attempted to regulate the subject of expert evidence in criminal trials, to the end that there may be some evidence in the case, not bought and paid for, coming from impartial witnesses who owe no duty or allegiance to either side of the controversy, and that the fact of their impartiality shall he made known to the jury. * * * (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buchanan 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.