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442 So. 2d 148 - Clency v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 1990
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Mills v. State · 420 So. 2d 826 - Stephens v. State · 415 So. 2d 714 - Clency v. State · Clency 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"Conviction of a client does not prove lack of either zeal or skill on the part of counsel."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 441 So. 2d 1067 - Roberson v. State · 448 So. 2d 964 - Williams v. State
  2. “must remember the words of our Supreme Court speaking through Mr. Justice Coleman in Mills v. State , 275 Ala. 217 , 153 So.2d 650 (1963) as follows:”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 441 So. 2d 1067 - Roberson 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.