Clayton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1992
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fulghum v. State · Williams v. State · Fraternal Order of Police, Strawberry Lodge 40 v. Entrekin · 21 Ala. App. 234 - Jones v. State · 55 Ala. App. 238 - Steward 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Manslaughter in the second degree is defined as the unlawful killing of another human being, without malice and without the intent to kill or to inflict the injury resulting in death, but accidentally committed by the accused while he was doing an unlawful act amounting to a misdemeanor , or accidentally committed by the accused while he was doing a lawful act, but in a grossly negligent or improper manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.