State v. Harman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 199 W. Va. 12 - State Ex Rel. Hoover v. Berger (1997), 169 W. Va. 121 - State v. Persinger (1982)
32 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 United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Boyd v. United States · Washington v. Texas · United States v. Dionisio
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.
“In a criminal case, the admissibility of testimony implicating another person as having committed a crime hinges on a determination of whether the testimony tends to directly link such person to the crime, or whether it is instead purely speculative. Consequently, where the testimony is merely that another person had a motive or opportunity or prior record of criminal behavior, the inference is too slight to be probative, and the evidence is therefore inadmissible. Where, on the other hand, the testimony provides a direct link to someone other than the defendant, its exclusion constitutes reversible error.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]vidence of psychiatric disability may be introduced when it effects the credibility of a material witness’ testimony in a criminal case[,] [b]efore such psychiatric disorder can be shown to impeach a witness' testimony, there must be a showing that the disorder effects the credibility of the witness and that the expert has had a sufficient opportunity to make the diagnosis of psychiatric disorder.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] subpoena duces tecum is available against third parties in both civil and criminal cases upon an adequate description of the material sought. Furthermore, it is necessary to show that the material is relevant to an issue in the case and that its proof is not otherwise practicably available .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.