Clemmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2010
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Day v. State · Sloan v. State · O'NEAL v. State · State v. Mooney · Jackson 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no such thing as plain error in postconviction relief cases. Appellate review of the trial court’s action on a post-conviction relief motion is “limited ” to a determination of whether the findings and conclusions of the motion court are clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collis
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.