State v. Seward’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Ortiz (1997), 557 So. 2d 1030 - State v. Johnson (1990)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Rose v. Clark · Fahy v. Connecticut · Kahn v. Grant
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t may ultimately be found that the admission of a coerced confession can never be treated as harmless error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.