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← 281 Ala. 622 - Harris v. State

Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1968

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
March 1999
most recently cited

24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1999

24 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 Ex Parte Griffith · White v. State · Ex Parte Enzor · Mobile & Montgomery Railway Co. v. Yeates

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

  1. “the general rule is that the rule making communications between attorney and client privileged from disclosure does not ordinarily apply where the inquiry is confined to the fact of the attorney's employment, the name of the person employing him, and the terms of the employment”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[a] witness, be he attorney or client, is not entitled to decide the question for himself.”
    1 later decision 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.