Harmon v. Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1977
17 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 Wuester v. Folin · Brown v. Westerfield · Tucker v. Allen · State v. Grottkau · Williams v. Shackleford
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ From these provisions, it appears that civil rights are not suspended until the convict is imprisoned. If we should hold that civil rights are suspended the moment sentence is pronounced the defendant’s punishment would be increased by taking away his civil rights for an indefinite period in excess of the term of imprisonment, which does not begin until the stay allowed upon appeal has expired and he is imprisoned, or possibly, when he is in custody to be conveyed to the penitentiary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Handrub v. Griffin · Martin v. Long““A sentence of confinement and hard labor for a term less than life suspends all civil rights of the person so sentenced during the term thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Long
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.