Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 1994
21 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 McElroy v. State · Danzig v. State · Davis v. State · Washington v. State · Ellison 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(A) a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or "(B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Limuel v. State · Denham v. State“The State tried to prove that appellant used and exhibited a deadly weapon, a knife. Appellant does not contend whether or not the knife in question could have caused death or serious bodily injury, only that a deadly weapon, the knife, was never used or exhibited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State“in the course of committing theft ... and with intent to obtain or maintain control of the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Banks 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.