Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Anglemyer v. State (2007), Wooley v. State (1999)
52 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 Hammons v. State · Thomas v. State · Sims v. State · Townsend v. State · Jackson v. State
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[allthough a court must consider all evidence of mitigating factors presented by a defendant, a finding of mitigating circumstances is within the trial court's discretion. A trial court is not obligated to explain why it has not chosen to find mitigating cireumstances. Thus, a trial court is only required to articulate in the sentencing statement those proffered mitigating circumstances, if any, that it determines are significant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dennis v. State“that they could follow the trial court's instruction. Transcript at 567. Given our deference to the trial court in these matters, we conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying Morgan's request to dismiss the two jurors. IIL. The next issue is whether the trial court abused its discretion by denying Morgan's motion for a mistrial. Morgan requested a mistrial based upon the State's”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. State“(1) identify all significant mitigating and aggravating cireumstances; (2) state the specific reason why each circumstance hald] been determined to be mitigating or aggravating; and (8) articulate the court's evaluation and balancing of cireumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dennis 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.