Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Weatherford v. State (1993), Barany v. State (1995)
68 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 Parrish v. State · Menifee 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The penalty imposed upon appellant in this instance is- not proportionate to his offense and therefore violates Article I, § 16 of the Indiana Constitution. An enhancement authorized by statute that is ultimately based upon a conviction for conduct that the legislature has classified as a misdemeanor, where there is no injury to person or property, is entirely out of proportion to the gravity of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Manley 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.