State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2009
16 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 · Griffin v. California · United States v. Warner · State v. Shuls · State v. Meiers
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has heen suggested that relief should always be given under [the plain error rule] when a “constitutional” error is involved. We do not agree. Even a federal constitutional error may be considered harmless. Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 , 87 S.Ct. 824 , 17 L.Ed.2d 705 ... (1967). We will continue to “review all the facts and circumstances in each case and determine on a ease-to-case basis whether manifest injustice has resulted from the alleged error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spidle““(c) Plain errors affecting substantial rights may be considered on motion for new trial or on appeal, in the discretion of the court, though not raised in the trial court or preserved for review, or defectively raised or preserved, when the court deems that manifest injustice or miscarriage of justice has resulted therefrom.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hamell
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.