Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2016
17 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 McCleskey v. Kemp · Baskett v. United States · Bunce v. United States · Kent v. Bechtel Group, Inc. · Baker v. Wade
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“look[] to the factual background of relevant cases to determine the proportionality of the sentence imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State
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.