Witherow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Emmons v. State (1991), Guy v. State (1992)
41 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 Chapman v. State of California · Harris v. United States · Collier v. State of Nevada · Manning v. Warden, Nevada State Prison · Walker v. Fogliani
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it must be determined whether the errors were harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greene v. State · Atkins v. State
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.