2011 UT App 77 - State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
June 2023
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Shickles · State v. Saunders · In Re Halverson · State v. Decorso · State v. Nelson-Waggoner
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Harmless errors are those that are sufficiently inconsequential so no reasonable likelihood exists that the error affected the outcome of the proceedings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the trial court erred in failing to conduct a thorough analysis under rule 404(b), [we] will not overturn a jury verdict ... if the admission of the evidence did not reasonably affect the likelihood of a different verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“While [the court need not identify each of the Shickles factors in its analysis, we must be able to discern that it made a sufficient inquiry under rule 403.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Nielsen
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.