State v. Harding’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2007 · most notably Tison v. Arizona (1987), State v. Nash (1985)
55 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Enmund v. Florida · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Tison v. Arizona · State v. Chapple · State v. Gretzler
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence indicates that the victim did not die instantaneously, but rather died slowly, his death being caused by asphyxiation due to his being gagged as he was.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adamson v. Ricketts“[i]t is proper to inquire whether a prospective juror's attitude concerning the death penalty would prevent him from making an impartial decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wiley“the purpose for binding and gagging ... was to facilitate the robbery and hinder detection”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LaGrand
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.