Briggs v. Connecticut’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
215 federal appellate · 36 district · 309 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 795 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably Hensley v. Eckerhart (1983), Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air (1986)
215 federal appellate · 36 district · 309 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Central Illinois Public Service Co. v. United States · Chapman v. United States · State v. Briggs
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 795 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“egregious violations of the constitutional rights of criminal defendants by blandly reciting the formula 'harmless error.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McKenzie v. Montana
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.