State v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Brown (1995), State v. Kulmac (1994)
146 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Burks v. United States · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Armstrong v. Manzo
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A reviewing court] consider[s], on a nonconstitutional basis, the harmfulness of the impropriety in the trial court's instruction. When a trial error in a criminal case does not involve a constitutional violation the burden is on the defendant to demonstrate the harmfulness of the court's error.... The defendant must show that it is more probable than not that the erroneous action of the court affected the result....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is improper for the trial court to read an entire statute to a jury when the pleadings or the evidence support a violation of only a portion of the statute.... The jury charge was overly expansive because the state had presented no evidence [for the portion of the charge].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a factual insufficiency regarding one statutory basis, which is accompanied by a general verdict of guilty that also covers another, factually supported basis, is not a federal due process violation.”
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.