62 Wash. 2d 858 - State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2008
22 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 Holt v. United States · Marshall v. United States · State v. Gaines · State v. Adamo · State v. Arnold
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[P]roof of the fact of killing, alone, does not raise a presumption of premeditation or deliberation, but premeditation or deliberation may be inferred from the circumstances of the killing.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) That on or about the 1st day of December 1968 the defendant did mortally wound one Jeffery Huggard by shooting at, toward and into the body of the said Jeffery Huggard with a gun; “(2) That the defendant did inflict said mortal wounds “(a) with a premeditated design to effect the death of the said Jeffery Huggard, “Or “(b) while in the commission of, or in an attempt to commit, or in withdrawing from the scene of a robbery; “(3) That as a result of the said wound so inflicted the said Jeffery Huggard then and there died; “(4) That said acts occurred in King County, Washington. “If you find from all the evidence admitted in the case that the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt elements (1), (3), (4) and either (2a) or (2b) of the crime charged in information, then it will be your duty to return a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree as charged. In connection therewith you are instructed that subheadings (2a) and (2b) are alternatives and only one need be proved. “On the other hand, if after weighing all the evidence you then entertain a reasonable doubt as to the establishment of any one of the foregoing elements, then it will be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty .of murder in the first degree as charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had been struck on the head several times with a blunt instrument with such force that in one place her skull had been fractured into her brain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sherrill
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.