Harding v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2019
11 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 Simmons v. United States · Chambers v. Mississippi · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court properly denied Harding’s motion for the court to immunize [the witness].... The only immunity available to Harding’s witnesses was under section 13-90-118, 6 C.R.S. (1973 & 198i Supp.), which could only have been granted by court order on the request of the prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Eggert“Some courts have found that court granted immunity is an invasion of the normal function of the executive branch to weigh competing public interests in determining whether a particular criminal suspect should be prosecuted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. J.S. v. Chambers
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.