State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Pool v. Superior Court (1984), Fuenning v. SUPER. CT. IN AND FOR CTY. OF MARICOPA (1983)
1 federal appellate · 110 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 · Harrington v. California · Lutwak v. United States · Trammel v. United States · State v. McVay
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test for determining harmless error is “whether or not there was reasonable probability ... that a verdict might have been different had the error not been committed.” (Citations omitted.) To put it differently, is there any reasonable doubt that the jury would have found the defendant guilty in the absence of this inadmissible hearsay?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Bojorquez
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.