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1967

Citation profile

69
cited by 69 later decisions
2
states following
September 2013
most recently cited

69 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young (1989), 141 Ill. 2d 40 - People v. Smith (1990)

69 state decisions

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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 · Pointer v. Texas · Douglas v. Alabama

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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"The test of whether error is harmless is not whether there is other evidence of guilt or even whether other proof of guilt is overwhelming. ( Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 , 17 L.Ed.2d 705 , 87 S.Ct. 824, 827 , footnote 7.) In spite of the other evidence in the record we are unable to say, beyond a reasonable doubt, as commanded by Chapman that Lemmon's identification of defendant as one of the men who made the sale did not contribute to the finding of guilty. The officers did not see the sale; Lemmon did not testify; and the only direct evidence linking defendant with the sale was the testimony of Sibley. Under these circumstances it is possible that Lemmon's identification might have played a part in the finding of guilty. Because of this error the judgment must be reversed."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 8 Ill. App. 3d 512 - People v. Eastin

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.