Satterwhite v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
379 federal appellate · 10 district · 692 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,382 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Penson v. Ohio (1988), Arizona v. Fulminante (1991)
379 federal appellate · 10 district · 692 state decisions — followed in 42 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade
Cited together with Chapman v. State of California · Strickland v. Washington · Arizona v. Fulminante · Gideon v. Wainwright · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 1,382 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have permitted harmless error analysis in both capital and noncapital cases where the evil caused by a Sixth Amendment violation is limited to the erroneous admission of particular evidence at trial.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not whether the legally admitted evidence was sufficient to support the death sentence, which we assume it was, but rather, whether the State has proved “beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.””
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ome constitutional violations ... by their very nature cast so much doubt on the fairness of the trial process that, as a matter of law, they can never be considered harmless.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Matt · State v. Cushard
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.