State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Sugasti (2002), 572 So. 2d 1166 - State v. Greer (1990)
42 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 Gregg v. Georgia · State v. Sepulvado · 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · Hamm v. City of Rock Hill · People v. Oliver
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the rule in this state that the penalty provision in effect at the time of the offense is the applicable provision.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Flagg · State v. Cook“not less than one nor more than ten years,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the law in effect at the time of the commission of the offense is determinative of the penalty which the convicted accused must suffer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.