Harris v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.3d 581 · 1996
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably State v. Pittman (2007), United States v. Doe (1998)
17 federal appellate · 10 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 Gault · Furman v. Georgia · Colorado v. Connelly · Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grossly disproportionate to the crime being punished.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen a fragmented Court decides a case and no single rationale explaining the result enjoys the assent of five Justices, `the holding of the Court may be viewed as that position taken by those Members who concurred in the judgments on the narrowest grounds.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Katuria Smith“a fifteen-year-old's limited culpability for any crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.