Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 1984
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Gerstein v. Pugh · Neal v. State · Collins v. State · Ellingburg v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [T]his appellant received only a sentence to life imprisonment without parole. We find nothing in any of the opinions in Furman [ 408 U.S. 238 (1972)] to indicate that the court’s restrictions upon a jury’s discretion in the matter of punishment apply to anything except the imposition of the death penalty. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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