Clements v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State (1981), 399 So. 2d 330 - Ex Parte Kyzer (1981)
2 federal appellate · 94 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 Furman v. Georgia · Stirone v. United States · Coker v. Georgia · 38 Ala. App. 573 - Schenher v. State · Fuller 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person is to be made subject to penal statutes by implication and all doubts concerning their interpretation are to predominate in favor of the accused. Fuller v. State, supra.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cockrell v. State · Ankrom v. State“`unlawfully and intentionally and with malice aforethought'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hubbard v. State · Tomlin v. State“"`The rule that a man shall not be charged with one crime and convicted of another, may sometimes cover real guilt, but its observance is essential to the preservation of innocence. It is only a modification of this rule, that the accusation on which the prosecution is founded, should state the crime which is to be proved, and state such a crime as will justify the judgment to be pronounced.' The Hoppet v. United States, 7 Cranch (11 U.S.) 389, 394, 3 L.Ed. 380, 382 (1813)."”
2 later decisions 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.