State v. Clayton’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2020
1 district · 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. Labato · Baker v. City of Fairbanks · Brown v. Multnomah County District Court · State v. Laird · People v. Hildebrandt
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prosecution for a traffic infraction is a quasi-criminal proceeding to which certain criminal procedures including the issuance of warrants are applicable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a class of quasi-criminal offenses which, while they are not serious, are to be disposed of within the criminal justice system.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An infraction as provided for in (c) of this section, is not considered a criminal offense and may not result in imprisonment, nor is a fine imposed for the commission of an infraction considered a penal or criminal punishment; nor may the commission of a single infraction result in the loss of a driver’s license or privilege to drive in this state except as may result from the accumulation of points under AS 28.15.282-28.15.288, or the registration of vehicles; nor does a person cited with an infraction have a right to trial by jury or to court-appointed counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlson 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.