State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 134 Ohio App. 3d 142 - State v. Prim (1999), State v. Jones (2018)
75 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. Clayton · State v. Underwood · State v. Phillips · State v. Shane · State v. Campbell
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An individual can commit the offense of aggravated assault without acting in self-defense. Conversely, one can act in self-defense and not act under the influence of sudden passion or fit of rage.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]vidence supporting the privilege of self-defense, i.e., that the defendant feared for his own and other's personal safety, does not constitute sudden passion or a fit of rage as contemplated by the voluntary manslaughter statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No person, while under the influence of sudden passion or in a fit of rage, either of which is brought on by serious provocation occasioned by the victim that is reasonably sufficient to incite the person into using deadly force, shall knowingly * * * [c]ause serious physical harm to another.”
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.