State v. Berget’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
July 2023
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Neder v. United States · McCarthy v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“declare a belief beyond a reasonable doubt that the error[s were] harmless and did not contribute to the verdict obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Miller v. Young
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.