Harper v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Sanborn v. Commonwealth (1988), Mills v. Commonwealth (1999)
44 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Wainwright v. Witt · Gall v. Commonwealth · McQueen v. Commonwealth
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Chief Justice shall assign to an administrative assistant who is an attorney the following duties: (a) To accumulate the records of all felony offenses in which the death penalty was imposed after January 1, 1970, or such earlier date as the court may deem appropriate. (b) To provide the court with whatever extracted information it desires with respect thereto, including but not limited to a synopsis or brief of the facts in the record concerning the crime and the defendant. (c)To compile such data as are deemed by the Chief Justice to be appropriate and relevant to the statutory questions concerning the validity of the sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For some reason, obscure to us, the Public Advocate keeps insisting on access to the data collected by this Court under the provisions of KRS 532.075(6)---- KRS 532.075(6) refers to all records of all felony cases in which the death penalty was imposed after January 1, 1970, or such earlier date as the court may deem appropriate. We have used such cases commencing in 1972. The Public Advocate can study these cases, as we have done. We state in our opinions all matters considered by us, and in no way are mysterious and secret records or data taken into account in our deliberations. [Emphasis deleted]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ppellant has failed to show that the ruling below was not supported by substantial evidence. “In the absence of any showing to the contrary, we assume the correctness of the ruling by the trial court.” It is the duty of a party attacking the sufficiency of evidence to produce a record of the proceeding and identify the trial court’s error in its findings of fact. Failure to produce such a record precludes appellate review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.