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← 643 SW2D 803 - State v. Clemons

State v. Clemons’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
3
states following
January 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably State v. Feltrop (1991), State v. Forrest (2006)

2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions

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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. Wood · State v. Brooks · State v. Kelly · State v. Wilkerson · State v. Handley

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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “An inconsistent verdict among several charges does not require a reversal provided there is sufficient evidence to support the jury's finding of guilt [on each count considered independently] ... Juries frequently convict on some counts and acquit on others not because they are unconvinced of guilt but simply because of compassion and compromise.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Shaw · State v. Owens
  2. “Accurate portrayals will always be inflammatory and the photographs here were not more gruesome than any photographs which would depict persons burned to death. Id. at 805 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Mouser
  3. “An inconsistent verdict ... does not require a reversal provided there is sufficient evidence to support the jury's finding of guilt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. O'DELL

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.