Clemons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2018
14 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Fare v. Michael C. · Blackburn v. Alabama · Chambers v. Florida
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny act attempted or committed by a child, which if committed by an adult would be punishable under state or federal law by life imprisonment or death. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edmonds v. State“that, because neither of his parents were present during his interrogation, his understanding of his rights was diminished and the interrogation was coercive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“age had no special bearing on [the child's] ability to be questioned without a parent and voluntarily waive his rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edmonds 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.