DeChant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2021
14 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 44 Cal. 3d 713 - People v. Melton · Townsend v. State · People v. . Roach · Kevin Allen Big Pond v. State · Lay v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Relevant factors to consider in deciding whether error is harmless or prejudicial include whether the issue of innocence or guilt is close, the quantity and character of the error, and the gravity of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although we have concluded that . . . [one trial error] alone would warrant reversal, we have also analyzed the cumulative effect of the errors at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[1]f the cumulative effect of errors committed at trial denies the appellant his right to a fair trial, this court will reverse the conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.