Pulido v. Chrones’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.3d 669 · 2007
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Williams v. Taylor · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Burks v. United States · Neder v. United States
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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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although these cases did not arise in the context of a jury instructed on multiple theories of guilt, one of which is improper, nothing in them suggests that a different harmless-error analysis should govern in that particular context. ... [¶] In fact, drawing a distinction between alternative-theory error and the instructional errors in [several cases including Neder ] would be 'patently illogical,' given that such a distinction ' "reduces to the strange claim that, because the jury ... received both a 'good' charge and a 'bad' charge on the issue, the error was somehow more pernicious than ... where the only charge on the critical issue was a mistaken one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict.`”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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