71 Wash. 2d 239 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 144 - State v. Stroud (1986), 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986)
3 federal appellate · 41 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Schmerber v. State of California · Preston v. United States
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
2 later decisions 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.