Flanders v. Meachum’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Ojnee a reviewing court applying Bagley has found constitutional error there is no need for further harmless-error review. Assuming arguendo that a harmless error inquiry were to apply, a Bagley error could not be treated as harmless, since a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceedings would have been different, necessarily entails the conclusion that the suppression must have had substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury’s verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 952 F. Supp. 957 - Dey v. Scully

2. “In eases such as this one, where the alleged constitutional error is the deprivation of the fundamental right to a fair trial, the finding of an error that deprives the defendant of his constitutional right to a fair trial cannot by definition be harmless. Accordingly, the court’s broader inquiry into the constitutional dimensions of an erroneous exclusion of evidence subsumes the harmless error analysis and obviates the need for any additional inquiry[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 952 F. Supp. 957 - Dey v. Scully

3. “burglary does not end when a burglar enters the premises, but continues for as long as the burglar is on the premises with the intent to commit the crime”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 165 Conn. App. 255 - State v. Johnson