Clements v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Cooper v. State (1994), Bullock v. State (2003)
33 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 Smith v. Superior Court · David v. State · McKinnon v. State · Leggins v. State · Burns 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“MR. ATKINSON: [T]here is no way that defense can be readied and properly presented fairly for this man on the twenty-fourth. THE COURT: If that is so, Mr. Atkinson, then the Court will have no choice but to find you negligent and in contempt, and so with Mr. Suggs, because you represented to this Court that you could and would get ready. I sent notices out to you. You both concurred in this trial date. And all I hear you saying is that, “We’ve sat on our fanny and not done anything about this and we want a continuance.” But you can’t tell me what it is you want to do. And you have no assurance — I have no assurance that if I give you another thirty days you’ll do any more than you have in the last sixty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atkinson v. Lofton
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.