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← 258 La. 720 - State v. Harris

State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

89
cited by 89 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

87 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 750 So. 2d 893 - State v. Edwards (1999), State v. Cryer (1972)

87 state decisions

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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 McGautha v. California · State v. Andrus · State v. Green · State v. Callihan · State v. Rives

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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"* * * sentence regulations form no part of the applicable law to be argued by counsel before the jury. To allow argument of these matters would inject irrelevant considerations into the jury's deliberations as to guilt."”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Hodges · State v. Lewis
  2. “"A large part of the value of the jury system is that a jury might refuse to enforce an oppressive law, even though it be proved that the defendant violated its provisions. The penalty is part of the law. The penalty alone might make a law oppressive.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 298 So. 2d 798 - State v. Blackwell
  3. “"Whoever commits the crime of armed robbery shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five years and for not more than ninety-nine years, without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 298 So. 2d 798 - State v. Blackwell

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.