State v. Clarkson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably State v. Yarborough (1996), State v. Weber (1966)
46 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. Compton · Griffin v. Henderson · Smith v. Meadows · State v. Cummings · State v. Smith
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wanton and reckless operation of ■ an automobile which must be shown * * in order to secure a conviction for involuntary manslaughter where a human is killed by an automobile * * * is not different from that required to be shown under our guest statute * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hayes · State v. Rice
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.