State v. Zakaria’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2022
16 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 Crawford v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Richardson v. Marsh
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The harmless error doctrine preserves the essential purpose of criminal trials: to decide a defendant’s guilt or innocence. The rule promotes public respect for the criminal process by focusing on the underlying fairness of the trial rather than on the virtually inevitable pres- enee of immaterial error. The harmless error rule governs ... provided the court is able to declare a belief beyond a reasonable doubt that the error was harmless and did not contribute to the verdict obtained. [Hjarmlessness must ... be determined on the basis of the remaining evidence. ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bowker“Evidentiary rulings are presumed correct and are reviewed under the abuse of discretion standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tosh v. Schwab“was harmless and did not contribute to the verdict obtained.”
1 later decision 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.