State v. Clayton’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2013
11 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 State v. Sepulvado · New York v. Ferber · State v. Richardson · 416 So. 2d 528 - State v. Ratcliff · 443 So. 2d 522 - State v. Sweeney
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.
“whether there is a reasonable possibility that the constitutional error complained of might have contributed to the defendant's conviction. The reviewing court must be able to declare a belief that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A leading question is one suggesting the answer that the witness is expected to give. However, a question calling for a `yes' or `no' response is not leading unless that question also suggests to the witness which of those responses to give.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.