Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably Maldonado v. State (1976), Ortiz v. State (1976)
55 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 United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Alford v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Gordon v. United States · Viereck v. United States
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The relevance of a conviction to bias against the State remains an arguable point. On the one hand, it is easy to imagine that a prior conviction might produce an extreme and undifferentiated hostility against the State, causing a witness to exaggerate or slant his testimony against the State. On the other, it is equally easy to conceive of a prior conviction which is so remote as to arouse no such animus at all. For example, if the challenged witness pled guilty to a minor offense and was minimally punished, in all likelihood, the witness' conviction would not produce a sense of hostility against the State sufficient to color his testimony. However, in order to legitimate a subject matter for cross-examination for bias, the questioning party does not have to show that such matter will necessarily prove the witness' bias and prejudice, but only that there exists a reasonable degree of probability that the witness is biased or prejudiced because of this evidence."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wooden v. State · Jones v. State““Evidence of bias is not limited to the scope of direct examination, nor is such evidence collateral.” Clark v. State (1976), 264 Ind. 524 , 348 N.E.2d 27, 32 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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