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← 306 Md. 344 - Harris v. State

Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

84
cited by 84 later decisions
8
states following
November 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 46 Cal. 3d 478 - People v. Keenan (1988), Green v. French (1998)

2 federal appellate · 80 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Gregg v. Georgia · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green

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

  1. ““[W]e do not suggest that the exercise of this right [of allocution] may be unlimited as to either duration or content. Although a sentencing court may not deny a defendant who elects to allocute a fair opportunity to exercise his right, the court may in its discretion curtail allocution that is irrelevant or unreasonably protracted.””
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Calhoun · Jones v. State
  2. ““(f) Allocution and information in mitigation. Before imposing sentence, the court shall afford the defendant the opportunity, personally and through counsel, to make a statement and to present information in mitigation of punishment.””
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Clermont v. State · State v. Calhoun
  3. “allocution is not a fundamental right secured by either the federal or state constitution”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Calhoun · 150 Md. App. 403 - Perry 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.