Harmon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Brown v. State (2001), Williams v. State (2002)
135 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 Bolden v. State
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits murder in the second degree if: (1) he knowingly causes the death of another person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Price 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.