Harden v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

cited by 28 later decisions

states following

August 2018

most recently cited

28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 671 So. 2d 647 - Peterson v. State (1996), Perkins v. State (1986)

28 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 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State · 461 So. 2d 686 - Jones v. State · 428 So. 2d 1361 - Pearson 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“The indictment upon which the defendant is to be tried shall be a plain, concise and definite written statement of the essential facts constituting offense charges and shall fully notify the defendant of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. Formal or technical words are not necessary in an indictment, if the offense can be substantially described without them.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Monk v. State · 520 So. 2d 127 - Alexander v. State
“[e]very person who shall design and endeavor to commit an offense, and shall do any overt act toward the commission thereof, but shall fail therein, or shall be prevented from committing the same, on conviction thereof, shall, where no provision is made by law for the punishment of such offense,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 503 So. 2d 281 - Armstead v. State · 601 So. 2d 872 - Ross v. State
“a lewd suggestion to the victim coupled with the defendant's physically grabbing his victim and attempting to carry her away only to have her break free are under the facts of this case sufficient.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 520 So. 2d 127 - Alexander v. State · 528 So. 2d 828 - Pruitt 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.