Clemons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2014
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Adams v. State · Camp v. Hall · McCoy v. State · Bacon v. Green · State v. Noakes
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The physician had testified that there was a comminuted fracture of the left cheek bone of the deceased Smith, or, in plain English, that the bone was broken to pieces, and that the flesh of the cheek was very much bruised. There were also a number of wounds and fractures of the inner table of the skull described by the physician. . . . We are of opinion that a physician, who is by virtue of his profession better acquainted with the human anatomy and with the resisting power of the bones and tissues, should be allowed, under the circumstances of this case, to answer the question whether in his opinion the wound or wounds described by him involving comminuted fractures of the cheek bone and of the inner table of the skull could have been produced by a man’s naked fist.” (p. 16.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elftman
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.