Ex Parte Clear’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Welch (1981), Ex Parte Renier (1987)
6 federal appellate · 28 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 Gerstein v. Pugh · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Hensley v. Municipal Court, San Jose-Milpitas Judicial Dist., Santa Clara Cty. · 406 F. Supp. 649 - Alberti v. Sheriff of Harris County, Texas · Flores 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“possessed sole jurisdiction over th[e] complaint ... to the exclusion of all other courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Guerra v. Garza · Ex Parte Dobbs““When two or more courts have concurrent jurisdiction of any criminal offense, the court in which an indictment or complaint shall first be filed shall retain jurisdiction except as provided in Article 4.12.” 15”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“all the magistrates of a given county have co-equal jurisdiction; indeed this appears to be nothing less than the plain import of the statute. More specifically, we hold that a justice of the peace acting as a magistrate has jurisdiction concurrent with that of a district judge who also seeks to exercise magisterial powers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Knight
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.