367 So. 2d 524 - Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2001
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Gideon v. Wainwright · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the proceedings were rendered a farce or mockery of justice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he duty of counsel, retained or appointed, is to prevent the trial from being or appearing to be a farce or mockery of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The presumption indulged by the court in a coram nobis hearing is to the effect that counsel was adequate and effective at trial.”
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.