Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2015
10 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 Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Coleman v. Alabama · Foster v. California
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[i]n post-Stovall cases, ‘[s]uggestive confrontations are disapproved because they increase the likelihood of misidenti-fication, and unnecessarily suggestive ones are condemned for the further reason that the increased chance of misiden-tification is gratuitous.’ * * * The shift in emphasis from unnecessarily suggestive confrontations (post-Stovall cases) to reliability of identification (pre- Stovall cases) is explained by the need, once Stovall was decided, ‘to deter the police from using a less reliable procedure where a more reliable one may be available.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State“the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness’ degree of attention, the accuracy of the witness’ prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and the length of time between the crime and the confrontation. 409 U.S. at 199 , 93 S.Ct. at 382 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vouras 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.