State v. Clayton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2004
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Burks v. United States · Patterson v. New York · Leland v. Oregon · Powell v. Texas
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.
“(1) the defendant was not “suffering from a mental illness at the time of the commission of the crime,” or (2) the illness proved did not “prevent his knowing the wrongfulness of his act” and did not “render him substantially incapable of conforming his conduct to the requirements of the law he is charged with violating.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson“If the evidence adduced either by the defendant or the State raises a reasonable doubt as to the defendant’s sanity, the burden of proof on that issue shifts to the State. The State must then establish the defendant’s sanity to the satisfaction of the jury and beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sparks
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.