Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2016
22 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Edge v. State · Lajara v. State · Lewis v. State · McGill 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is possible to establish a prima facie case [of justification] through the testimony of witnesses other than the defendant. [Cit.] However, if a trial court correctly determines that the testimony of witnesses other than the defendant does not establish a prima facie case of justification, the trial court’s insistence that a defendant establish a prima facie case before presenting evidence of the victim’s prior acts of violence is not the equivalent to a judicial mandate that the defendant must testify. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ludy v. State“[a] necessary prerequisite to the admission of evidence of a victim’s violence is the defendant’s establishment of a prima facie showing of justification. [Cit.] A prima facie case of justification requires a showing that the victim was the aggressor, that the victim assaulted the defendant, and that the defendant was honestly trying to defend [him] self. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Traylor 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.