State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 117 Wash. 2d 263 - State v. Smith (1991), Collins v. Day (1994)
54 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Cannon v. United States · Wardius v. Oregon
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges, or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The provisions of the state Constitution are the antithesis of the fourteenth amendment in that they prevent the enlargement of the rights of some in discrimination against the rights of others, while the fourteenth amendment prevents the curtailment of rights.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“* * * But these defendants do not exist as categories or classes with distinguishing characteristics before and apart from a prosecutor's decision how to charge one, or some, or all defendants. Aside from the manner in which the decision is made, [citation omitted] defendants charged under either procedure are `classes' only as an effect of the dual procedural scheme itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hennigan 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.