State v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Varela (1999), State v. Ortega (1991)
79 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Harris v. New York · Dennis v. United States · United States v. Knox · 6 Cal. 3d 28 - People v. Satchell
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o presume conclusively that one who commits any felony has the requisite mens rea to commit first-degree murder is a legal fiction we no longer can support.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A policeman who shoots at an escaping robber but misses and kills an innocent bystander would be considered a dependent, intervening force, and the robber would be criminally liable for felony murder under this test. Lightning striking and killing the bystander would be an independent, intervening force.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · State v. O'Kelly“both the nature of the felony and the circumstances surrounding its commission may be considered to determine whether it was inherently dangerous to human life. (Citations omitted.) ... In the final analysis this is for the jury to decide in each case, subject to review by the appellate courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.