Harper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Robertson v. State (1968), 14 Md. App. 159 - Palmer v. State (1972)
35 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 Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Simmons v. United States · Jones v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No just interest of the Government in the effective and rigorous enforcement of the criminal law will be hampered by recognizing that anyone legitimately on premises where a search occurs may challenge its legality by way of a motion to suppress, when its fruits are proposed to be used against him.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is recognized that an officer need not and, in fact, should not ignore evidence of a crime which comes to his attention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright 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.