State v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Arceo (1996), State v. Toyomura (1995)
92 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 · City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · State v. Huelsman · State v. Bannister · State v. Pokini
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]rror is not to be viewed in isolation and considered purely in the abstract. It must be examined in the light of the entire proceedings and given the effect which the whole record shows it to be entitled. In that context, the real question becomes whether there is a reasonable possibility that error might have contributed to conviction.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kwak · State v. Toyomura
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.