State v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 331 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 334 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Maxwell (2014), State v. Trimble (2009)
1 federal appellate · 331 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · State v. Jenks · State v. Dehass
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 334 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constitutional error can be held harmless if we determine that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Even though an offense may be statutorily defined as a lesser included offense of another, a charge on such lesser included offense is required only where the evidence presented at trial would reasonably support both an acquittal on the crime charged and a conviction upon the lesser included offense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“went beyond a momentary impulse and show that he was determined to complete a specific course of action.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris · State v. White
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.