Harris v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2012
14 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Drew v. United States · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour · Graves v. United States · Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You have heard evidence that the defendant, Larry Finch has previously been convicted of crimes. A defendant’s prior criminal conviction is admitted into evidence solely for your consideration in evaluating the defendant’s credibility as a witness. The fact that the defendant was convicted of a crime in the past is not evidence that the defendant is guilty of the offense with which he is charged in this case. You must not draw any inference of guilt against the defendant from his prior conviction. You may only consider his prior conviction in evaluating the credibility of his testimony in this case.”
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.