Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 533 So. 2d 1169 - State v. Sanborn · 510 So. 2d 335 - Williamson v. State · 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“announcing that as a matter of law the striking of the outer body of an automobile can never constitute a touching for purposes of a battery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“through the force of impact by being jostled or otherwise impacted through the transfer of energy from the collision.] Give if the reclassification in § 784.03(2), Fla. Stat. was charged and if jury found the defendant guilty of Battery. Now that you have found the defendant guilty of Battery, you must further determine whether the State has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was previously convicted of [Battery] [Aggravated Battery] [Felony Battery].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'there need not be an actual touching of the victim's person in order for a battery to occur, but only a touching of something intimately connected with the victim's body,' " and it reasoned that "whether an object is sufficiently closely connected to a person such that touching or striking the object would be a battery on that person will depend upon the circumstances of each case.”
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.