Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably State v. Carrasco (1997), Averhart v. State (1984)
65 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 Henderson v. State · Robinson v. State · Lisenko v. State · Jethroe v. State · Mattingly 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"One who aids or abets another or induces or causes another to commit a criminal offense can be charged with that offense and tried and convicted as a principal .... The accomplice can be criminally held for everything done by his confederates which was a probable and natural consequence of their common plan.... It is not necessary that the evidence show that the accomplice personally participated in the commission of each element.... "A trier of fact may infer participation from a defendant's failure to oppose the crime, companionship with one engaged therein, and a course of conduct before, during, and after the offense which tends to show complicity." Id. at 156 . (Citations omitted).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“an accomplice is criminally liable for everything done by his confederates which was a probable and natural consequence of their common plan.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vasquez v. State · Haynes v. State“One who aids or abets another or induces or causes another to commit a criminal offense can be charged with that offense and tried and convicted as a principal .... The accomplice can be criminally held for everything done by his confederates which was a probable and natural consequence of their common plan.... It is not necessary that the evidence show that the accomplice personally participated in the commission of each element....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sumner 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.