756 So. 2d 730 - Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2013
7 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 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 711 So. 2d 458 - Collier v. State · 716 So. 2d 1083 - Gleeton v. State · 512 So. 2d 4 - Hughey 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who shall feloniously take or attempt to take ... the personal property of another ... by putting such person in fear of immediate injury to his person by the exhibition of a deadly weapon. . . shall be guilty of robbery . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is simply no proof that Clark used the purported knife in any manner whatsoever during the commission of the offense. He did not threaten [the cashier] verbally or physically with the knife. More importantly, giving all inferences to the testimony of [the cashier] that he indeed saw a knife, it was not the means by which Clark took the cash.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Clark was indicted only for armed robbery. His attorney did not request and the trial court did not give instructions on the lesser-included offenses of larceny or simple robbery. While armed robbery is not supported by the evidence in this case, the Court finds that there is evidence in the record of the crime of robbery. In Shields v. State, 722 So.2d 584 (Miss.1998), this Court held that the direct remand rule allowed the appellate court to remand a case to the trial court for sentencing on a lesser-included offense when the greater offense was not proved, but the elements of the lesser-included offense were sufficiently met. Id. at 587 . This rule applies even when no lesserincluded offense instruction was given by the trial court. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.