State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Bland (1997), State v. Middlebrooks (1992)
2 federal appellate · 121 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 United States v. Wade · Gregg v. Georgia · Schmerber v. State of California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not within the accused's power to change his fingerprints, hair, breath or blood. But a handwriting exemplar requires the truthful participation of the accused if it is to possess any evidentiary value. The privilege against self-incrimination resulted from attempts to extract from a person's lips a true statement concerning his guilt and thereby to supply the needed proof against himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Frasier“Further, our comparative proportionality review reveals that the sentence in this case is neither excessive nor disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the nature of the crime and character of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Howell“whatever is submitted to the judge or jury to elucidate an issue, to prove a case, or to establish or disprove a fact in issue,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Frasier
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.