State v. Harold’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2012
24 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 State v. Tippett · State v. Wells · State v. Beaver · State v. Simpson · State v. Freeman
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.
“The defendant’s emphasis on the issue of ownership of the dwelling house here is misplaced. We have stated that the reason for prohibiting the offense of first degree burglary “is to protect the habitation of men [or women], where they repose and sleep, from meditated harm.” We have also held that in burglary cases occupation or possession of a dwelling is equivalent to ownership, and actual ownership of the premises need not be proved. [Our] holdings recognize that the inquiry relevant to this element of the crime is whether the premises is the dwelling of another, not whether it is owned by another. The trial court was not required to give any instruction concerning the ownership of the house, as the concept of title is not controlling in ascertaining whether the offense has been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n a burglary indictment, “the occupant of the building at the time of the burglary is the owner,” and it is unnecessary to allege ownership of the title to the building. The decisions of this Court require only that the breaking and entering in the nighttime with intent to commit a felony be into a dwelling or a room used as a sleeping apartment which is actually occupied at the time of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blyther
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.