391 So. 2d 421 - State v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 220 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 221 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 603 So. 2d 731 - State v. Hearold (1992), 775 So. 2d 1022 - State v. Casey (2000)
1 federal appellate · 220 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 · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Bumper v. North Carolina · Harrington v. California
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 221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether there is a reasonable possibility that the evidence complained of might have contributed to the conviction”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the court must be able to declare a belief that [the error] was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Green · State v. Banks“is a question of law to which our appellate jurisdiction extends.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Green · State v. Crotwell
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.