Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Maring-Crawford Motor Co. v. Smith (1970), 37 Ala. App. 57 - Huddleston v. State (1953)
49 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 McMillan v. Aiken · Leith v. State · Birmingham Ry. Light & Power Co. v. Moore · City of Dothan v. Hardy · International Agri. Cor. v. Abercrombie
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of the cases is that it is misconduct on the part of the jurors, justifying a reversal, for them to agree, after they have found accused guilty, that each shall set down on paper the term of imprisonment or the amount of fine which, in his opinion, should be assessed, that these sums shall be added and the ■total divided by twelve, and the quotient thus reached accepted as the verdict of the jury. ‘There is no error, however, if there was no positive prior agreement to abide by the result of this process, but it is afterward discussed and either adopted or a modification thereof agreed upon. And even though there may have been an agreement, if the jury subsequently refuse to abide by it, and impose a greater or a less punishment than the quotient, there is no error.’ 16 Corpus Juris, p. 1087, Sec. 2552, 23 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1374.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Verdicts found by lot are the issue of ignorance, passion, or indifference to the rights of life, liberty, and property, and [show] an utter disregard for the rules of law and fair deductions that should be made from the evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington 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.