384 So. 2d 641 - Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2006
19 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 Gaines v. State · 370 So. 2d 736 - Whitt v. State · 364 So. 2d 416 - Chambers v. State · 344 So. 2d 533 - Andrews v. State · 364 So. 2d 420 - Bell 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[a]n indictment must . . . apprise the accused not only of the nature of the offense, but also of the particular act or means by which it was committed.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dixon v. State · Henderson v. State“did torture, willfully abuse, cruelly beat or otherwise willfully maltreat [the victim], a child under the age of 18 years, by to-wit: Beating her about the head, torso, and arms, in violation of § 26-15-3 of the Code of Alabama , against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.”
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.