Clayton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), Passmore v. State (1981)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 154 Ind. App. 248 - Moulder v. State · Smith v. State · Fowler v. State · Baldwin v. State · Wilson 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I tell you one thing: Mr. Wade pays my salary. It’s not very much. He couldn’t pay me enough to come down here and prosecute a man I didn’t know in my heart to be guilty. They have talked to you — ” (Emphasis in original)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones 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.