State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Preston (1984), State v. Williams (2000)
8 federal appellate · 31 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 Missouri v. Hunter · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Idaho ex rel. Evans v. Oregon · State v. Franco · State v. Olds
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate any felony other than the five listed in the first degree murder statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lohman v. Groose · State v. O'DELL“The felony murder rule permits the felonious intent necessary to a murder conviction to be shown by the perpetuation of or attempt to perpetrate a felony. Proof of intent to commit the underlying felony raises a conclusive presumption that the defendant possessed the necessary felonious intent to support conviction for the resulting murder, i.e., intentional, wilful, and premeditated, with malice aforethought, if felony murder, second degree, is charged, or these plus deliberation if felony murder, first degree is charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rumble v. Smith“All other kinds of murder at common law, not herein declared to be manslaughter or justifiable or excusable homicide, shall be deemed murder in the second degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.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.