Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 31 Ala. App. 91 - Lee v. State (1943), Bowden v. State (1988)
51 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 State v. Sebastian · Wilson v. State · Ex Parte State, in re Brooms v. State · Whitaker v. State · People v. . Thompson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[i]t went to show the existence of relations between her and the defendant which tended to make the commission of the act of a similar nature, which was the subject of the charge, more probable, and so to confirm her previous testimony. That the accused was under the influence of a sexual passion in respect to this girl in July [the subsequent act], which led him then to take advantage of her youth in order to gratify it, was logically relevant to the question whether he gave rein , in the same manner, to such passion in respect to her, three months before [the principal offense]." (emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The true reason for excluding an offer of compromise is that it does not ordinarily proceed from and imply a belief that the adversary's claim is well founded, but rather a belief that the further prosecution of the claim, whether well founded or not, would in any event cause much annoyance as (and) is preferably avoided by the payment of the sum offered. In short, the offer implies merely a desire for peace, not a confession of wrong done. 2 Wigmore on Evidence, p. 1231, § 1061C. "The holding in these cases [ Wilson , supra; Sanders , supra] does not justify the exclusion of evidence showing a voluntary offer of settlement in a criminal prosecution which embodies an express admission of guilt."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a voluntary offer of settlement in a criminal prosecution which embodies an express admission of guilt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.