State v. Bennis’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
April 1998
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Brown v. United States · People v. CALVAREST · State v. Michalek · State v. Holland
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prejudicial error, when constitutional questions are being considered, is error which would have some likelihood of changing the result. A constitutional violation may constitute harmless error, and thus not require reversal, if the court can declare beyond a reasonable doubt that the error was harmless and did not contribute to the verdict obtained. We are thus required to ask whether it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury would have returned a verdict of guilty absent the alleged errors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Larson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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