Clemons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Smith v. State (1984), Lindley v. State (1981)
47 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 Santobello v. New York · Pulliam v. State · Kleinrichert v. State · Brown v. State · Porter 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no merit to this argument since the court further instructed the jury on the definition of the crime of murder ... and the necessary element of the specific intent to kill is correctly set out therein.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Worley v. State · Canaan v. McBride“[the fact that a defendant has appeared before a certain judge in prior actions does not establish the existence of any bias or prejudice on that judge's part.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Meadows v. State“To convict the defendant of the crime of attempted murder, the State must have proved the following elements: 1. the defendant knowingly or intentionally 2. took a substantial step to accomplish 3. a knowing or intentional killing of another human being. If the State failed to prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the defendant not guilty of attempted murder. If the State did prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the defendant guilty of attempted murder, a Class A felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter 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.