State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023
17 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Furman v. Georgia · Patton v. United States · State v. Bayless · Coyote v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The accepted standard for waiver of a constitutional right is an intentional relinquishment of that right. However there is no constitutional requirement that the waiver be in writing. Only, that it must be knowingly and intelligently made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"(A) Trial by jury. In serious offense cases the defendant before commencement of the trial may knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waive in writing his right to trial by jury * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a* * * [lY]e do not equate ‘sociopath’ as being either a psychosis or a mental deficiency. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. House
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.