Harrington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably May v. State (1987), Govan v. State (1985)
32 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 United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Burgett v. Texas · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Holt v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Members of the Jury: “The defendant, Raymond Garcia Lopez, lias been found guilty by you of the offense of burglary with intent to commit theft, as alleged in the first paragraph of the indictment. In addition, the indictment alleges in the second paragraph thereof, that the defendant has heretofore been convicted of a felony less than Capital, to-wit Burglary with Intent To Commit Theft. “To this allegation in the second paragraph of the indictment the defendant has pleaded ‘not true’. “It now becomes your duty under the law to determine whether this allegation is ‘true’ or ‘not true’ and if ‘not true’, to set the punishment which should be assessed against this defendant. In the second paragraph of the indictment it is alleged that the defendant Raymond Garcia Lopez, under the name of Raymond Lopez was tried and convicted on or about the 27th day of May, A.D., 1960 in Cause No. S-58956 in the Criminal District Court No. 2 of Bexar County, Texas, for the offense of Burglary With Intent To Commit Theft, a felony less than Capital, and which said conviction had become a final conviction prior to the commission of the offense which is alleged in the first paragraph of the indictment and for which you have previously found him to be guilty. “Therefore, if you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, prior to the commission of the offense of Burglary With Intent To Commit Theft for which you have previously found him guilty was duly and le”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. State““In the case at bar, even though the fingerprinting was not done originally on the order of the Trial Judge, he sanctioned such action by admitting the prints taken into evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simmons 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.