Schneble v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
847 federal appellate · 42 district · 1,476 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,719 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Delaware v. Van Arsdall (1986), Arizona v. Fulminante (1991)
847 federal appellate · 42 district · 1,476 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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 · Bruton v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Harrington v. California · Lego v. Twomey
Cited together with Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · Bruton v. United States · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brown v. United States
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 2,719 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless there is a reasonable possibility that the improperly admitted evidence contributed to the conviction, reversal is not required.”
68 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In some cases the properly admitted evidence of guilt is so overwhelming, and the prejudicial effect of the codefendant's admission is so insignificant by comparison, that it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the improper use of the admission was harmless error.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judicious application of the harmless error rule does not require that we indulge assumptions of irrational jury behavior when a perfectly rational explanation for the jury's verdict, completely consistent with the judge's instructions, stares us in the face.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.