Harkness v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2021
20 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · 62 Cal. 2d 436 - People v. Modesto · United States v. Lyon
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was manifestly intended to be or was of such a character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be comment on the defendant's failure to testify.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If we have to speculate and guess about what really happened in this case, whose fault is it if we don't know the facts in this case?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the question 'whose fault is it if we SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 10 (0) 1947A ageN. .4. tit& don't know the facts in this case? suggests that the accused, rather than the [S]tate, has the burden of proving or disproving the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.