State v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably State v. Becker (2010), State v. Gholston (2001)
33 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. Voiles · Lisenko v. State · Simpson v. State · State v. Burton · State v. Gatewood
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.
“[t]he intent with which an entry is made is rarely susceptible of direct proof; it is usually inferred from the surrounding facts and circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The difficulty with this argument is that the element of willfully injuring, damaging, mutilating, defacing, destroying or substantially impairing the use of property is not an element of burglary. It is entirely possible to establish a burglary without proving damage, and the mere fact there was damage to the building in this case does not make criminal damage to property a lesser included offense. We conclude that criminal damage to property is not a lesser included offense of burglary, and the trial court did not err in refusing to instruct on that offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McDonald
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.