23 Utah 2d 128 - State v. Harless’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2006
20 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 United States v. Waldon · 3 Utah 2d 124 - State v. Shonka · State v. Peterson · 22 Utah 2d 63 - State v. Hansen · State v. Hougensen
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]here is a basis in reason and experience, why one may place more credence in the testimony of one who has lived within the rules of society and the discipline of the law than in that of one who has so demonstrated antisocial tendency as to be involved in and convicted of serious crime.” [ Sands, supra, 76 N.J. at 143 , 386 A.2d 378 (quoting State v. Harless, 23 Utah 2d 128 , 459 P.2d 210, 211 (1969)).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brunson · State v. Remy
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.