State v. Helmer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The violation of a defendant’s constitutional right may constitute harmless error and therefore not require reversal, if this Court can declare beyond a reasonable doubt that the erroneous admission was harmless and did not contribute to the verdict which was obtained. We must inquire as to whether it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury would have returned a guilty verdict absent the admission of Hel-mer’s statements to Wiest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Westerfield

2. “(1) the group excluded is a “distinct” group in the community; (2) the representation of this group in jury pools is not fair and reasonable in relation to the number of such persons in the community; and (3) this under[-]representation is due to the systematic exclusion of the group from the jury selection process.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Aesoph