State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably State v. Silvey (1995), State v. Sladek (1992)
2 federal appellate · 149 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 Davis v. Alaska · State v. Berry · State v. Morgan · State v. Smith · State v. Baldwin
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'An instruction on a lesser offense is not proper unless it is impossible to commit the greater without first committing the lesser, for otherwise the lesser is not properly a lesser offense to the greater.... [T]o be a necessarily included offense it is essential that the greater offense include all of the legal and factual elements of the lesser.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Meiners v. State · State v. Gobble“(3) “Sexual contact” means any touching of the genitals or anus of any person, or the breast of any female person, or any such touching through the clothing, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire of any person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker · State v. Dunn“As stated in State v. Davis, supra, [ 497 S.W.2d 204 ] ‘resolution of conflicts of evidence and determination of the credibility of witnesses are jury matters and this court is to determine only whether there was substantial evidence to be believed by the jury which would sustain a guilty verdict.’ Id. at 207 . We conclude the victim’s testimony was not so contrary to physical facts, common experiences and surrounding circumstances as to render its validity doubtful, and there was sufficient evidence to have submitted the cause to the jury and support its verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ellis
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.