Thomas v. Beto’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.2d 981 · 1973
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2009 · most notably Estelle v. Williams (1976), State v. Reid (1976)
13 federal appellate · 4 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 · Harrington v. California · Hernandez v. Beto · Brooks v. State of Texas · United States v. Manning
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We held in Chapman v. California That 'before a federal constitutional error can be held harmless, the court must be able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.' We said that . . . not all 'trial errors which violate the Constitution automatically call for reversal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estelle v. Williams“we can perceive no possible inference which clouds or conflicts any essential or material fact. Rather, all such facts lead unerringly to guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boswell v. Alabama“Let me go. You have got the money. Let me go.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Estelle
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.