Harris v. New York’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1,250 federal appellate · 161 district · 3,026 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,216 later decisions (130 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Faretta v. California (1975)
1,250 federal appellate · 161 district · 3,026 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Mapp v. Ohio · Griffin v. California · Weeks v. United States
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Walder v. United States · Oregon v. Hass · Chapman v. State of California · Michigan v. Tucker
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 5,216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every criminal defendant is privileged to testify in his own defense, or to refuse to do so.”
225 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Of course, the Constitution guarantees a defendant the fullest opportunity to meet the accusation against him. He must be free to deny all the elements of the case against him without thereby giving leave to the Government to introduce by way of rebuttal evidence illegally secured by it, and therefore not available for its case in chief. Beyond that, however, there is hardly justification for letting the defendant affirmatively resort to perjurious testimony in reliance on the Government’s disability to challenge his credibility.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It is abiding truth that '[n]othing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.