State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Pittman (2007), State v. Adams (2003)
48 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Estelle v. Williams · State v. Council · State v. Kelly · State v. Rodgers
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he reasons for refusing to interfere with the discretion of a circuit judge in matters involving the purity of the jury box and the integrity of verdicts are peculiarly strong. He is in the atmosphere of the trial, and has opportunity to estimate the character and intelligence of the jurors, as well as of the person charged with improper conversation or corrupt dealings with them .... These and perhaps other things afford the trial judge such superior means of coming to a just conclusion, that before disturbing his order on such a subject, an appellate court should require very clear evidence of abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tucker“Id. at 315 , 509 S.E.2d at 815 (emphasis added) (quoting United States v. Resko , 3 F.3d 684 , 695 (3d Cir. 1993) ). As to outside influences, a jury must render a verdict free from them. Harris , 340 S.C. at 63 , 530 S.E.2d at 627 . "In determining whether outside influences have affected the jury, relevant factors include (1) the number of jurors exposed, (2) the weight of the evidence properly before the jury, and (3) the likelihood that curative measures were effective in reducing the prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution guarantee a defendant a fair trial by a panel of impartial and indifferent jurors. . . . To safeguard these rights, the jury must render its verdict free from any outside influences,”
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.