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State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Ashness (1983), State v. Girouard (1989)

32 state decisions

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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 United States v. Wade · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Adams v. Texas · Davis v. Georgia

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[R]ecusal is not in order by a mere accusation that is totally unsupported by substantial fact.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Cruz · Parrillo v. Parrillo
  2. “"Manslaughter is defined as an unintentional homicide, without malice aforethought or the specific intent to kill, committed either in the performance of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or in the performance of a lawful act with criminal negligence. That is, without due caution and circumspection, and that is manslaughter."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Hockenhull
  3. ““Court order for view. — In all cases in which it shall seem advisable to the court, on request of either party, a view by the jury may be ordered; and in all such cases the court shall regulate the proceedings at the view and in its discretion accompany the jury.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Ashness

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.