Anthony v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2011
17 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 Virginian Ry. Co. v. Armentrout · Hamre v. Conger · 49 So. 2d 332 - Cornelius v. State · Prince v. Aucilla River Naval Stores Co. · Gantling v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“errors which do not affect the outcome of the trial,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Certainly a jury, exclusive of such an instruction, is charged with the duty of determining the weight and credibility of the evidence. It has been observed that the rule 'means no more now than that the jury may disbelieve a witness if they think he is lying; but they need no instruction about that...1”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... Error is harmless when it is trivial, formal, or merely academic, and not prejudicial to the substantial rights of the party assigning it, and where it in no way affects the final outcome of the case; it is prejudicial and ground for reversal, only when it affects the final result of the case and works adversely to a substantial right of the party assigning it... .”
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.