Dorsey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
905 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 905 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Ross v. State (1976), State v. Evans (1976)
905 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 Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · People v. Crimmins · United States v. Jackson · State v. Babb
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 905 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen an appellant, in a criminal case, establishes error, unless a reviewing court, upon its own independent review of the record, is able to declare a belief, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the error in no way influenced the verdict, such error cannot be deemed “harmless” and a reversal is mandated.”
90 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State · State v. Hines““In determining whether an error is harmless, we look to see whether the ‘erroneous ruling, in relation to the totality of the evidence, played a significant role in influencing the rendition of the verdict, to the prejudice of the appellant.’ Unless we, ‘upon [our] own independent re view of the record, [are] able to declare a belief, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the error in no way influenced the verdict, such error cannot be deemed “harmless” and a reversal is mandated.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.