State v. Clemmons’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Ervin (1992), State v. Feltrop (1991)
3 federal appellate · 151 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Michelson v. United States · Skipper v. South Carolina · Jones v. Howard
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In assessing a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, the evidence, together with all reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, is viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict and evidence and inferences contrary to the verdict are ignored.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Feltrop · State v. Clay“are narrowed to uninvited interference with summation and a corresponding increase of error by such intervention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White · State v. Beck“sympathy is not a proper factor for the jury to consider in reaching its decision as to punishment,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. Delo · Murray 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.