Harmon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 173 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Miller (1996), 18 Cal. 4th 47 - People v. Venegas (1998)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Frye v. United States · United States v. Downing · Spencer v. Commonwealth · Hamilton v. Texas
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though DNA testing can accurately identify a person's genes, the fact that a person carries a particular gene means little unless scientists can also tell us the likelihood that other people share that same gene. The fact that a defendant carries the same gene as was found in a tissue sample taken at the scene of the crime is not particularly probative if a high percentage of the population also carry (sic) that same gene; conversely, if the gene is quite rare, then the DNA match becomes correspondently more probative. 3”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Begley · Peters v. State“Admissibility of DNA profiles. (a) In a criminal action or proceeding, evidence of a DNA profile is admissible to prove or disprove any relevant fact, if the court finds that the technique underlying the evidence is scientifically valid. The admission of the DNA profile does not require a finding of general acceptance in the relevant scientific community of DNA profile evidence. (b) In this section, (1) "deoxyribonucleic acid" means the molecules in all cellular forms that contain genetic information in a patterned chemical structure for each individual; (2) "DNA profile" (A) means an analysis of blood, semen, tissue, or other cells bearing deoxyribonucleic acid resulting in the identification of the individual's patterned chemical structure of genetic information; (B) includes statistical population frequency comparisons of the patterned chemical structures described in (A) of this paragraph.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peters v. State“we believe that ... the proper course of action is for us to follow the existing standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coon
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.