Commonwealth v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Loadholt (2010), Commonwealth v. Sepheus (2014)
25 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Smith v. Phillips · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Pennsylvania v. Muniz · Commonwealth v. Fancy
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial judge is accorded considerable discretion in the jury selection process and his finding that a juror stands indifferent will not be disturbed except where juror prejudice is manifest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[A]t common law a person may change his name at will, without resort to legal proceedings, by merely adopting another name, provided that this is done for an honest purpose.” A person may be known by, and use, more than one name, and the business he transacts under such names will be valid and binding if unaffected by fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a defendant uses a peremptory challenge to excuse a juror that the judge refused to excuse for cause and the defendant is later 'forced to accept a juror whom he otherwise would have challenged peremptorily' ... the correctness of the judge's refusal to excuse the former juror for cause is preserved for review”
1 later decision 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.