Clark v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Sperry v. State of Florida the Florida Bar (1963), Attorney General of Maryland v. Waldron (1981)
108 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Ex parte Garland · Wayman v. Southard · State of Kansas v. State of Colorado · Standard Oil Co. v. City of Marysville · People Ex Rel. Illinois State Bar Ass'n v. Peoples Stock Yards State Bank
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"So far as is necessary to their self-protection the right of the courts is paramount or exclusive; but beyond that point the legislative department also has constitutional rights in the exercise of the police power.” Clark v. Austin, 340 Mo. 467, 496 (101 S. W. [2d] 977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any body, board, committee or commission constituted by law or having authority to settle controversies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“general superintending control over all inferior courts,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Curry v. Dahlberg
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.