State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2021
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 Ake v. Oklahoma · Frye v. United States · Spencer v. Commonwealth · Hamilton v. Texas · People v. Castro
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our legislature has included bruising and physical pain as adequate elements justifying a conviction for aggravated rape. It is not the duty of this Court to apply size or degree requirements to such unambiguous legislation. Consequently, given the presence of a bruise, the tenderness of the pelvic area, and the testimony of the victim and the examining physician, there were sufficient grounds for a rational trier of fact to find the defendant guilty of aggravated rape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McPherson
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.