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428 So. 2d 121 - Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1984
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 57 Ala. App. 444 - Isbell v. State · Johnson v. State · Isbell v. State · 331 So. 2d 766 - Randolph v. State · 43 Ala. App. 338 - Patrick 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]e are convinced that the admission of the prior inconsistent statement did not supply the jury any new information, but merely attacked Sullivan's credibility at trial, and was in no way damaging to this appellant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “... Sullivan, though he denied [at trial] that he saw the appellant shoot the rifle, did admit that he saw the appellant with the rifle in question at the time of the shooting,”
    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.