State v. Clifton’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2016
16 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 Brown v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Davis v. Long · State v. Abram · Crystal Tire Co. v. Home Service Oil Co. · State v. Vernor
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“MAI-CR instructions are the product of a Special Committee of the Missouri Bar appointed for the purpose of formulating pattern instructions for use in criminal cases followed by -an interchange of ideas and redraftsmanship in cooperation with the Supreme Court towards the end that there be fewer reversals of convictions by reason of faulty instructions and so that statewide uniformity in the reading of instructions to juries in criminal cases would be achieved. The particular [preliminary] instruction here •... is the product of thorough study by -representatives of the circuit bench, prosecutors, defense counsel .and law professors knowledgeable in the administration of criminal justice, adopted only .after submission to -many members of the Bar and consideration by. both the Board of Governors of the Missouri-Bar > and- the m'embers of the Supreme Court. The Supreme- Court mandated its reading to the jury by all trial judges of this state -... We can conceive of no reason why these- directions of the Supreme Court should not be followed by the trial courts of Missouri. - [... ] If we,’the judiciary, constantly give currency to this -practice, the value and benefits to be derived from the adoption of pattern instructions and the time and efforts éxtended by our committee of the Missouri Bar on Criminal Pattern Instructions will both be lost.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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