State v. Harrington’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2017
6 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. Elliott
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the gravamen of the offense with which [the] defendant is charged is the breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jenkins“clearly negate[d] the possibility of [the] defendant breaking and entering the vehicle to steal his own property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jenkins“[t]he technical ownership of the vehicle broken into is immaterial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jenkins
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.