Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Horton v. Allen (2004), Commonwealth v. Briggs (2011)
6 federal appellate · 46 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Witherspoon v. Illinois · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Adams v. Texas · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the actor was free from fault in provoking or continuing the difficulty which resulted in the use of deadly force; (b) the actor reasonably believed that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury and that there was a necessity to use such force in order to save himself or others; and (c) the actor did not violate any duty to retreat or to avoid the danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no exclusionary order was entered and the record does not establish that the court prohibited the public from observing the individualized voir dire”). Moreover, there is no evidence that the trial court limited the availability of a transcript of the individual voir dire proceeding. As the Press-Enterprise Court recognized, in at least some circumstances,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horton v. Allen
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.