State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
226 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Braswell (1985), State v. Gardner (1986)
226 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 · United States v. Wade · Gilbert v. California · Harrington v. California · Fahy v. Connecticut
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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every violation of a constitutional right is not prejudicial. Some constitutional errors are deemed harmless in the setting of a particular case, not requiring the automatic reversal of a conviction, where the appellate court can declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 , 17 L.Ed. 2d 705 , 87 S.Ct. 824 , 24 A.L.R. 3d 1065 (1967); Harrington v. California, 395 U.S. 250 , 23 L.Ed. 2d 284 , 89 S.Ct. 1726 (1969). Unless there is a reasonable possibility that the evidence complained of might have contributed to the conviction, its admission is harmless. Fahy v. Connecticut, 375 U.S. 85 , 11 L.Ed. 2d 171 , 84 S.Ct. 229 (1963).”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hooper · State v. Payne“Allegations beyond the essential elements of the crime sought to be charged are irrelevant and may be treated as surplusage.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“if it charges the offense in a plain, intelligible and explicit manner[.]”
3 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.