Clark v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 491 · 1969
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
March 1977
most recently cited
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Roberts v. Russell · Kaplan 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The critical question here is whether the error in the setting of this case can be deemed to be harmless. The Court in Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 at page 22, 87 S.Ct. 824 , at p. 827, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 in holding that even constitutional errors can be harmless, stated: ‘We conclude that there 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 requiring the automatic reversal of the conviction.’ ””
1 later decision 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.