State v. Hamlin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Catsam (1987), State v. Grega (1998)
78 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 · Griffin v. California · United States v. Young · United States v. Hasting · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury would have returned a guilty verdict regardless of the error.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wright · State v. Welch
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.