Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Terry v. State (1984), Mitchem v. State (1997)
68 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 Poindexter v. State · Zickefoose v. State · Reid v. State · Gardner v. State · Hall 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person who: . (1) Knowingly or intentionally kills another human being; ... commits murder IC § 35-42-1-1(1) [Burns 1979]. "A person attempts to commit a crime when, acting with the culpability required for commission of the crime, he engages in conduct that constitutes a substantial step toward commission of the crime. An attempt to commit a crime is a felony or misdemeanor of the same class as the crime attempted. However, an attempt to commit murder is a class A felony." IC § 85-41-5-1 [Burns 1979].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Brewer v. State“What constitutes a substantial step must be determined from all the circumstances of each case, and the conduct must be strongly corroborative of the firmness of the defendant's criminal intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bond v. State“The state presented sufficient evidence to make out a prima facie case and any conflicts in the testimony were for the triers of fact to resolve.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullins 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.