Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
February 2016
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ashton v. Anderson · Brown v. State · Keys v. State · Green v. State · Blankenship v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The obvious intent of the legislature [in enacting § 4-1] was to prohibit the sale of controlled substances and to increase the violation to a Class A felony if the amount of drugs sold exceeds three grams. It is common knowledge, which we must assume was known to the legislature, that drugs such as cocaine are not sold on the street in their pure form but are "cut" with inert substances to dilute them to a usable form which will not overdose the user. It is the sale of just such a prepared substance to which the legislature addressed itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coleman v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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