State v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Tucker (1996), State v. Kromah (2013)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 · State v. Mitchell · State v. Gunn · State v. Hoffman · State v. Dawkins
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In applying the harmless error rule, the court must be able to declare the error had little, if any, likelihood of having changed the result of the trial and the court must be able to declare such belief beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Collins · State v. Holcomb“the elements of distribution of crack cocaine”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In rejecting the trial court's offer to strike the testimony or give a curative instruction, [the appellant] waived any complaint he had to the challenged testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wilson
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.