State v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably State v. Holmes (2004), State v. Gideon (1995)
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 Chapman v. State of California · Chambers v. Mississippi · Rock v. Arkansas · In Re the Attorney General, Stephan · State v. Gregory
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 defendant. . . was the aggressor. He went looking for his brother with a loaded gun for the express purpose of shooting his brother ‘if [he] had to.’ Even with the defendant’s testimony that his brother threatened him verbally, was hostile and still angry, and lunged at the defendant with his hands in the air, the defendant, as tire aggressor, was not entitled to use deadly force in self-defense unless he had exhausted every other reasonable means to escape the danger he perceived. State v. Rutter, 252 Kan. 739, 747 , 850 P.2d 899 (1993).” 254 Kan. at 91 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Salary
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.