Healy v. Maggio’s Empirical Analysis
706 F.2d 698 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2014
12 federal appellate · 3 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Sandstrom v. Montana · Cupp v. Naughten · Connecticut v. Johnson · McElroy, Warden v. Holloway
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.
“was used in the charge, for example, to define or explain other terms, as in instruction 18 above 6 The government did not make a harmless error argument in its brief, and first conceded at oral argument that the harmless error standard would not apply to the jury instruction in issue, then stated that it could make such an argument. In any event, an erroneous instruction that pertains to an element of the offense that was in issue at the trial is harmless error only”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the evidence of guilt is so overwhelming that the error could not have contributed to the jury's decision to convict.”
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.