163 Ind. App. 673 - Larimer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1994
21 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 · Jackson v. Denno · Lámar v. State · Johnson v. State · Lamar 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ “. . . We, therefore, do no more than adhere to the meaning of our Fahy case when we hold, as we now do, that before a federal constitutional error can be held harmless, the court must be able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. While appellate courts do not ordinarily have the original task of applying such a test, it is a familiar standard to all courts, and we believe its adoption will provide a more workable standard. ...” “ ‘When applying the federal harmless error standard, we must weigh the evidence against Larimer [appellant]— absent his confession — and determine whether, beyond a reasonable doubt, an honest and fair-minded jury would have rendered a guilty verdict based solely on the remaining untainted evidence.’ ” (Our emphasis.) 336 N.E.2d at 681 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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