State v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2022
24 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1865 · 28 U.S.C. § 1867
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Arizona v. Fulminante · Neder v. United States · Miller v. Fenton · Tanner v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order to conclude that an error 'did not contribute to the verdict' within the meaning of Chapman, a court must be able to conclude 'beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the error.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'whether it appears " 'beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.'”
3 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.