Cleary v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Mutschler v. State (1977), Neal v. State (1981)
47 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 McClain v. State · State v. Chaney · Donlun v. State · Kriska v. State · Nicholas 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Robbery. A person who, by force or violence, or by putting in fear, steals and takes anything of value from the person of another is guilty of robbery, and is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than 15 years nor less than one year.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Penal administration shall be based on the principle of reformation and upon the need for protecting the public.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Conduct such as that engaged in by Cleary calls for lengthy incarceration. With reference to the criteria enunciated in Chaney [State v. Chaney, Alaska, 477 P.2d 441 ], a substantial sanction is necessary to express the community’s condemnation of such behavior so as to deter other members of the community from engaging in similar conduct. In addition, a long period of imprisonment unequivocally brings home to Cleary the seriousness of his dangerously unlawful conduct while preventing him from engaging in criminal conduct during the period of confinement. 3”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Good v. State · Cleary 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.