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← 532 SW3D 408 - Lake v. State

Lake v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth))

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Penson v. Ohio · Arizona v. Fulminante

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “I am not inclined to straightjacket our construction of [the harmless error rule] as the plurality continues to do today, in derogation of this Court's authority to, for example, declare certain state constitutional violations to be immune to harm analysis[.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “There is no set formula for conducting a harm analysis that necessarily applies across the board, to every case and every type of constitutional error.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “If, after such analysis, the harm of the error simply cannot be assessed, then 'the error will not be proven harmless beyond a reasonable doubt,'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.