Wilson v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(1) ‘[T]here may be some constitutional errors which in the setting of a particular case are so unimportant and insignificant that they may, consistent with the Federal Constitution, be deemed harmless, not resulting in the automatic reversal of the conviction’; (2) Any ‘harmless error’ rule applied to the violation, by a state court, of a provision of the United States Constitution, must be judged by a federal standard; * * * (3) ‘[B]efore a federal constitutional error can be held harmless, the court must be able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States ex rel. Smith v. Nelson