State v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Weed (2003), State v. Hale (2005)
157 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 Strickland v. Washington · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gideon v. Wainwright
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the error.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“error is harmless if it is 'clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the error.'”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Jensen · State v. Tucker
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.