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← 215 CONN 189 - State v. Harris

State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
4
states following
March 2021
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Hafford (2000), State v. Ray (1996)

31 state decisions

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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 Opper v. United States · Smith v. United States · Warszower v. United States · United States v. Miller · State v. Lucas

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the corroborative evidence need not be sufficient, independent of the statements, to establish the corpus delicti. It is [only] necessary, therefore, to require the Government ... to establish the trustworthiness of the [defendant's] statement.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 166 Conn. App. 142 - State v. Leniart · State v. Ray
  2. “[i]f ... there is substantial extrinsic evidence tending to demonstrate that the statements of the defendant are true, i.e., trustworthy, the statements are admissible.... The corpus delicti of the crime may then be established by the statements of the accused and the extrinsic evidence considered together.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 166 Conn. App. 142 - State v. Leniart
  3. “when the crime charged prohibits certain conduct but does not encompass a specific harm, loss or injury, a different approach to the corpus delicti rule, other than that enunciated in Tillman , is required.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 166 Conn. App. 142 - State v. Leniart

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.