106 Wash. 2d 784 - State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord (1992), State v. Brown (1997)
89 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 Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Berkemer v. McCarty · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Michigan v. Mosley
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]his court is not required to determine that less than a death sentence was never imposed in a case with some similar characteristics. On the contrary, we view it to be our duty under the similarity standard to assure that no death sentence is affirmed unless in similar cases throughout the state the death penalty has been imposed generally and not `wantonly and freakishly imposed,' . . ."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he safeguards prescribed by Miranda become applicable as soon as a suspect's freedom of action is curtailed to a 'degree associated with formal arrest.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“little guidance to determine at what point a death sentence becomes proportionate or disproportionate.”
2 later decisions 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.