Clemons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2013
15 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 Parham v. J. L. · 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State · Wells v. State · Biles v. State · Bradley 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence has established guilt of [manslaughter] beyond a reasonable doubt,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“extrapolate enough competent facts from the many versions of the story to sufficiently support the finding of murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was sufficient to support a conviction for murder but was not sufficient to support a conviction for capital murder because the proof did not show beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant murdered Henry Muller while engaged in the commission of the crime of kidnapping.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray 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.