Harrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2011
18 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 1 Cal. 3d 444 - People v. Hood · State v. Bitting · State v. Dennis · State v. Morgan
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[pjroof of intoxication alone is not a defense to a charge of committing a specific intent crime nor does it entitle an accused to jury instructions ...; there must be evidence that the intoxication deprived the accused of the mental capacity to form specific intent. 16 ... The determinative question is not whether the accused was intoxicated, but what was his mental capacity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burkley · State v. Hatcher“can be a complete defense in cases where an accused is charged with a crime requiring a specific intent, for the reason that if specific intent is an essential element of a crime, and such specific intent is lacking because of the incapacity of the accused to entertain specific intent, the crime has not been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coon 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.