State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2017
19 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 22 Utah 2d 343 - State v. Shondel · People v. Czajkowski · State v. Gerrard · 43 Cal. App. 3d 862 - People v. Thomas · 14 Utah 2d 124 - State v. Plum
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“define two crimes having precisely the same elements with different penalties,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hardy v. State · State v. Arave“applies only when 'two statutes are wholly duplicative as to the elements of the crime.' " Id. (citation omitted). "If each statute 'requires proof of some fact or element not required to establish the other,' there is no Shondel problem....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ainsworth · State v. Arave“'[W]hen two statutes under consideration do not proscribe the same conduct, ... [the] defendant may be charged with the crime carrying the more severe sentence,’ even if the defendant could have been charged with the crime carrying the less severe sentence, so long as there is a rational basis for the legislative classification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leleae
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.