609 So. 2d 513 - Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Finney v. State (1995), 707 So. 2d 300 - Walker v. State (1997)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Brewster v. Derwinski · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Wingo v. Wedding · Carella v. California
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The death penalty is reserved for `the most aggravated and unmitigated of most serious crimes.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. State · Sexton v. State“the entire sequence of events in which the murders occurred was touched off by Parker's desire to establish a remunerative drug-dealing network and his need to establish a reputation as a collector of debts,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of obtaining the victim's paying job,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.