State v. MacOn’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 608 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 617 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Kelly (1984), State v. Carter (1982)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 608 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Griffin v. California · Fay v. Noia · Harrington v. California
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 617 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly capable of producing an unjust result.”
101 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“before a federal constitutional error can be held harmless, the court must be able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failure to object may suggest the error was of no moment in the actual setting of the trial”
2 later decisions 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.