Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The defendant testified that immediately after he discovered the victim’s dead body, he fled to a wooded area near the Alabama-Mississippi state line. While there, he ‘received communications’ from a Major James A. Walker ‘about what the police were saying about [him] and the case against [him].’ The trial judge sustained the prosecutor’s hearsay objection and refused to permit the defendant to testify to the information he obtained from Walker. This testimony should have been permitted in order to explain the defendant’s motive for flight.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kernochan v. State

2. ““If it is material to prove that a person at a specified time had been put on notice about a matter, or entertained a specified belief, acted in good or bad faith, had a specified motive to do or not to do an act or to do an act with a specified motive, or was mentally deranged, proof that a statement was made to him prior to the time in question which was reasonably calculated to create, and which is offered for the purpose of showing notice, belief, good or bad faith, motive or mental derangement is not violative of the hearsay rule.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bunn v. State

3. “Evidence is relevant if it has any tendency to throw light upon the matter in issue, even though such light may be weak and fall short of demonstration.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 644 So. 2d 39 - Brewer v. State