State v. Arguello’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) a deprivation of the right to counsel; (2) a biased judge; (3) an unlawful exclusion of grand jurors of the defendant's race; (4) a deprivation of the right of self-representation at trial; (5) a deprivation of the right to a public trial; and (6) an erroneous reasonable doubt standard.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Young · State v. Uhre

2. “[a] structural error resists harmless error review completely because it taints the entire proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Young

3. “necessarily renders a trial fundamentally unfair.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Young