State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2016
19 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Schmerber v. State of California · Rochin v. People of California · Nix v. Williams · Breithaupt v. Abram
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Harris had been arrested for a weapons violation, and police found Zig-Zag cigarette papers, sometimes used to smoke marijuana; an electronic pager; and a digital gram scale in his car. The officers also had confiscated marijuana from the passenger in Hams’ ear. At least one officer at the scene suspected that someone was dealing drugs from Harris’ car. Harris was waiting to be strip-searched when [an officer] saw him chewing something. Harris refused to let [the officer] see what was in his mouth and refused to spit the crack cocaine out upon the officer’s order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Carr“had no way of knowing whether the suspected narcotic in [the defendant’s] mouth could be retrieved later or whether it would be destroyed when [the defendant] ingested it” and the defendant’s”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alverez
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.