Harrison v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2013
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Hayman · Heflin v. United States · Harris v. Nelson · Case v. State of Nebraska · 475 So. 2d 336 - State v. Counterman
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Records pertaining to pending criminal litigation or any criminal litigation which can be reasonably anticipated, until such litigation has been finally adjudicated or otherwise settled; or (2) Records containing the identity of a confidential source of information or records which would tend to reveal the identity of a confidential source of information; or (3) Records containing security procedures, investigative training information or aids, investigative techniques, investigative technical equipment or instructions on the use thereof, or internal security information; or (4)(a) The records of the arrest of a person, other than the report of the officer or officers investigating a complaint, until a final judgment of conviction or the acceptance of a plea of guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction. However, the initial report of the officer or officers investigating a complaint, but not to apply to any follow-up or subsequent report or investigation, records of the booking of a person as provided in Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 228, records of the issuance of a summons or citation, and records of the filing of a bill of information shall be a public record. * * * * * * (c) Nothing herein shall be construed to require the disclosure of information which would reveal undercover or intelligence operations. (d) Nothing herein shall be construed to require the disclosure of information which would reveal the identity of the victim of a sexual offense. (5”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“either by dismissal or by nolle prosse of the formal accusation by the district attorney. Harrison, 569 So.2d at 589 ; see LSA-R.S. 44:9; LSA-C.Cr.P. art. 691. [7] Paragraphs”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The legislature could have provided either for or against access to the DA record pertaining to finally-adjudicated criminal litigation ... [N]umerous sections of the PR Act that unequivocally and specifically provide against access to particular records that are otherwise public records ... The legislature, our opinion, made a choice for access after final adjudication by the clear language of [La. R.S. 44:3(A)(1)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.