In re Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1997 · most notably Lynch v. Overholser (1962), In Re Slayback (1930)
30 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Dent v. State of West Virginia · Henry Urquhart v. Thomas Brown · Meffert v. State Board of Medical Registration & Examination · Dowdell · In re Ferrier
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purposes of the statute are highly beneficent. It gives protection to the public against repetitions of homicides or other acts of irresponsible frenzy or distraction, and affords to the unfortunate persons so committed safe seclusion and humane treatment, which it is the province of the state to give in the exercise of its parental power. The judicial department may not interfere with the legislative conscience, unless there is a clear violation of some provision of the constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Noel““The statute merely provides a new procedure for the restraint, care and treatment of a class of the insane. It would be strange if the legislature could not change the procedure affecting insane people, or if such new procedure could not relate to persons thus afflicted before the passage of an act authorizing the inquiry.” (p. 541.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Timm
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.