People v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1984
17 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 Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Pond v. People · Wilson v. People · Holler v. State · People v. Lilly
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The testimony tending to show the animus or motive of the deceased was, in view of the conflict in the testimony upon that point, competent as bearing upon the question as to which was the assailant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Palmer
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.