State v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably 225 Ill. 2d 246 - People v. Stechly (2007), 382 Wis. 2d 496 - Tetra Tech EC, Inc. v. Wisconsin Department of Revenue (2018)
2 federal appellate · 76 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 · Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · Neder 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right... to meet the witnesses face to face.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“the frequency of the error, the importance of the erroneously admitted evidence, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the erroneously admitted evidence, whether the erroneously admitted evidence duplicates untainted evidence, the nature of the defense, the nature of the State's case, and the overall strength of the State's case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n error is harmless if the beneficiary of the error proves 'beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.