State v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Bond (2015), State v. Colwell (2000)
61 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Arizona v. Washington
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court has discretion in determining whether to grant or deny a motion for a new trial, and [appellate courts] will not reverse a trial court's decision absent clear abuse of that discretion.'' State v. Harmon, 956 P.2d 262, 266 (Utah 1998) (citing State v. Wetzel, 868 P.2d 64, 70 (Utah 1993); State v. Thomas, 830 P.2d 243, 245 (Utah 1992)); see also Mann v. Fredrickson, 2006 UT App 475, ¶ 5 , 153 P.3d 768 (”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Clurative instructions are a settled and necessary feature of our judicial process and one of the most important tools by which a court may remedy errors at trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[wle normally presume that a jury will follow an instruction to disregard inadmissible evidence inadvertently presented to it, unless there is an "overwhelming probability”
3 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.