State v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably State v. Holbron (1995), Cox v. State (1988)
28 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant’s contention that the element of intent is lacking in the crime of manslaughter is equally without merit, for as expressed in Section 255 of the Fourth Edition of Clark and Marshall’s Works on Crimes, ‘In all cases of voluntary manslaughter there is an actual intention to kill, or there is an intention to inflict great bodily harm, from which such an intent may be implied. It is manslaughter, and not murder, because there is no malice aforethought, not because of any absence or presence of intention to kill.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. State““Any person who, having a specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended; * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garner
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.