Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The fact that an original arrest may have been unlawful does not affect the jurisdiction of the court, nor is it a ground for quashing the information. And it does not preclude trial of the accused for the offense.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fischer v. State · Driver v. State

2. ““ ‘When a defendant, who has a right of election as to several defenses, takes the stand as a witness and makes such admissions as to render every theory of defense unavailable save one, he will be deemed to have elected that one.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sanders v. State · Wahlgreen v. State

3. ““The refusal to give manslaughter instructions is not error if there is no evidence to reduce the degree of the crime from murder to manslaughter.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sanders v. State