Harshman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Brimhall v. State (1972), Conley v. State (1972)
105 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 Batchelor v. State · Dearing v. State · Dowd, Warden v. Anderson · Batchelor v. State
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we view it, a plea of guilty tendered by one who in the same breath protests his innocence, or declares he actually does not know whether or not he is guilty, is no plea at all. Certainly it is not a sufficient plea upon which to base a judgment of conviction. No plea of guilty should be accepted when it appears to be doubtful whether it is being intelligently and understandingly made, or when it appears that, for any reason, the plea is wholly inconsistent with the realities of the situation.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘A. I plead guilty, Sir.’ ” The Court next asked him if he had anything further to offer before sentence was passed. He replied: “ ‘A. I would like to say a few words. I was drinking quite heavy that night. I don’t remember taking the vehicle, but there was so much evidence pointing against me, I certainly did take it. I don’t remember driving it.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Suddoth v. State · Turner v. State““ ‘A. Nothing only what the Prosecuting Attorney has already told me.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Suddoth v. State
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.