Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Connecticut v. Porter (1997), Bieghler v. State (1997)
4 federal appellate · 92 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Batson v. Kentucky · In the Matter of Samuel Winship
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court's statement of reasons (i) must identify each mitigating and aggravating circumstance found, (ii) must include the specific facts and reasons which lead the court to find the existence of each such circumstance, (iii) must articulate that the mitigating and aggravating circumstances have been evaluated and balanced in determination of the sentence, and (iv) must set forth the trial court's personal conclusion that the sentence is appropriate punishment for this offender and this crime.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Nicholson v. State · Clark v. State“The requirement for sentencing findings are more stringent in capital cases than in non-capital sentencing situations. The trial court's statement of reasons (f) must identify each mitigating and aggravating circumstance found, (#i) must include the specific facts and reasons which lead the court to find the existence of each such cireumstance, (i%) must articulate that the mitigating and ag'gravafing circumstances have been evaluated and balanced in determination of the sentence, and (iv) must set forth the trial court's personal conclusion that the sentence' is appropriate punishment for this offender and this crime.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he Supreme Court shall have, in all appeals of criminal cases, the power to review and revise the sentence imposed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.