State v. Just’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2013
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Neder v. United States · Montana v. Hall · State v. Bertram
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The harmless error doctrine recognizes the principle that the central purpose of a criminal trial is to decide the factual question of the defendant’s guilt or innocence, ... and promotes public respect for the criminal process by focusing on the underlying fairness of the trial. It also prevents setting aside convictions for small errors or defects that have little, if any, likelihood of having changed the result of the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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