State v. Weed’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Hale (2005), State v. Manuel (2005)
84 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 · Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Ohio v. Roberts
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 87 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.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stuart · State v. Hale“The colloquy should consist of a basic inquiry to ensure that (1) the defendant is aware of his or her right to testify and (2) the defendant has discussed this right with his or her counsel.”
4 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.