Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Ali (2010), Commonwealth v. Hughes (2004)
65 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 Skipper v. South Carolina · Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal · Francis v. Swisher · Commonwealth v. Means · Commonwealth v. Rice
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny other evidence of mitigation concerning the character and record of the defendant and the circumstances of his offense.” Id., § 9711(e)(8). . Appellant provided evidence that he had a good disciplinary record while incarcerated awaiting trial. See N.T. PCRA Hearing, 7/25/06, at 7. . Appellant argues the PCRA”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.