State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 1978
23 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 State v. Finch · State v. Miller · State v. Holbrook · State v. Hembree · State v. Magers
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ One fact may give rise to a single inference, or it may give rise to several inferences, or a logical conclusion may be drawn from a multitude of detached circumstances so related to each other and to the fact to be proved that it would be illogical to assume that they could all exist coincidentally and the fact in dispute be nonexistent. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Each inference was a non sequitur, and had no foundation upon which to rest. This court refused to tolerate such a piling of inferences upon each other and pointed out that not even the principal fact upon which they were supposed to rest had been proved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Circumstantial evidence to be sufficient for a conviction in this case must be of a conclusive nature * * (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dennis
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.