Clark v. Procunier’s Empirical Analysis
755 F.2d 394 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably United States v. Jaramillo (1995), United States v. Sanchez (1992)
16 federal appellate · 5 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Cosby v. Jones · Clark v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution gives equal or nearly equal circumstantial support to a theory of guilt and a theory of innocence of the crime charged, then a reasonable jury must necessarily entertain a reasonable doubt.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hobbs v. State · Knox v. Blackburn“Interpreting the evidence most favorably to the prosecution, we must construe it as establishing that the print was Clark's and that the safe was lying partially inside and partially outside the building. But the doorway in which the safe was lying was adjacent to a parking lot, and the state concedes that "the palmprint evidence alone does not negate the possibility that Petitioner placed his print on the safe after the burglary, either during a theft of the stickers or as an innocent passerby." Even if he construed the evidence most favorably to the state, a reasonable juror should have doubted that the left side of the safe was in the building. * * * * * * Entry into the building was not proved and cannot on the record be inferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“establish[ ] that Clark stole the stickers from the safe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. Collins
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.