Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2017
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1202
Relies on Lewis v. United States · 101 Wash. 2d 481 - State v. Gore · State v. Andrews · State v. Andrews · State v. Williams
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It appears to us that sound policy supports what we perceive to be the intent of the legislature____We see no reason why the legislature would want to encourage a person who has formerly been convicted of a felony to gamble by possessing a concealable firearm, hoping that if he or she is arrested for being a felon in possession that he or she can defend against that offense by having the former conviction set aside.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) A person commits the crime of misconduct involving weapons in the first degree if the person (1) knowingly possesses a firearm capable of being concealed on one’s person after having been convicted of a felony by a court of this state, a court of the United States, or a court of another state or territory.... [[Image here]] (b) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under (a)(1) ... of this section that [[Image here]] (2) the underlying conviction upon which the action is based has been set aside under AS 12.55.085 [suspended imposition of sentence statute] or as a result of post-conviction proceedings....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hansen 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.