Harris v. Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 17 district · 288 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 437 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Kyles v. Whitley (1995), Ring v. Arizona (2002)
68 federal appellate · 17 district · 288 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Solem v. Helm · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 437 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Eighth Amendment does not require the State to define the weight the sentencing judge must accord to an advisory jury verdict.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Eighth Amendment is not violated every time a State reaches a conclusion different from a majority of its sisters over how best to administer its criminal laws.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In deciding upon the sentence, the trial court shall determine whether the aggravating circumstances it finds to exist outweigh the mitigating circumstances it finds to exist, and in doing so the trial court shall consider the recommendation of the jury contained in its advisory verdict, unless such a verdict has been waived pursuant to section 13A-5-46 (a) or 13A-5-46 (g). While the jury's recommendation concerning sentence shall be given consideration, it is not binding upon the court."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knotts v. State · Ponder 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.