Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably State v. Bonner (1998), Monette v. Weber (2009)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Nachtigall v. Erickson · Sappington v. United States · Thunder v. United States · United States v. Kriz
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant does not state, nor does the record indicate, that appellant and La-Croix’s past records, demeanor, degree of criminal involvement, etc., are sufficiently similar as to cause the sentence disparity between them to be unjust. Absent any showing of such similarities, we must defer to the trial judge’s discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bonner“Appellant does not state, nor does the record indicate, that appellant and LaCroix's past records, demeanor, degree of criminal involvement, etc., are sufficiently similar as to cause the sentence disparity between them to be unjust. Absent any showing of such similarities, we must defer to the trial judge's discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bonner“Before accepting a plea of guilty ... a court must address the defendant personally in open court ... and inform him of, and determine that he understands, the following: (1) The nature of the charge to which the plea is offered ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Quiver 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.