Clark v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1989
13 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 Woolfolk v. Jack Kennedy Chevrolet Company · Poole v. Poole · Komosa v. Monsanto Chemical Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he point adjudicated or determined must be within the issues raised and submitted, and if the court attempts to adjudicate a question outside such issues the judgment is to that extent void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demba v. Demba
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.