State v. Mayo’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. LaCount (2008), State v. Kandutsch (2011)
71 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Cronic
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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 majority“beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.