Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
October 1987
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ashe v. Swenson · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Thornhill v. Alabama · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Pope v. Nebraska
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.
““ . . . merely because a lesser offense is included within the proof of a greater offense, a charge on the lesser is not required unless there is testimony raising such issue that the appellant, if guilty, is guilty only of the lesser offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowles 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.