Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 district · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Ross v. State (1976), Cross v. State (1978)
4 district · 110 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Kotteakos v. United States · People v. . Molineux · Simpson v. United States · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Where legal advice of [any] kind is sought, (2) from a professional legal adviser in his capacity as such, (3) the communications relating to that purpose, (4) made in confidence, (5) by the client, (6) are at his insistence permanently protected, (7) from disclosure by himself or by the legal adviser, (8) except the protection [may] be waived.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A person may not be compelled to testify in violation of the attorney-client privilege.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the oldest of the privileges for confidential communications known to the common law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.