State v. Harlow’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2003
13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hat the question of doubt or innocence... depends entirely, and must be determined alone by the intention which actuated the defendant in the killing; that, in determining the motive ... [the jury] must take into consideration all facts and circumstances in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Erwin“That, although drunkenness is no justification for the killing, yet the jury may take it into consideration, in determining the intent with which the defendant did the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Erwin
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.