State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Conaway (1995), State v. White (1995)
49 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. Powell · State v. Bullard · State v. Johnson · State v. Jackson · State v. Holden
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurors for the State upon their oath present that on or about the date of offense shown and in the county named above the defendant named above unlawfully, willfully and feloniously and of malice aforethought did kill and murder April Collins.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins“the substance of any oral statement relevant to the subject matter of the case made by the defendant, regardless of to whom the statement was made, ... the existence of which is known to the prosecutor or becomes known to him prior to... trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wynne“The decision whether to grant a motion for mistrial rests within the sound discretion of the trial judge and will not ordinarily be disturbed on appeal absent a showing of abuse of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sutton
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.