State v. Verde’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Holgate (2000), State v. Menzies (1994)
149 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 Strickland v. Washington · Dawson Chemical Co. v. Rohm & Haas Co. · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · United States v. Thevis · Baker v. Missouri
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'sufficiently inconsequential that we conclude there is no reasonable likelihood that the error affected the outcome of the proceedings.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“"to obtain appellate relief from an alleged error that was not properly objected to, the appellant must show the following: (1) An error exists; (i) the error should have been obvious to the trial court; and (i) the error is harmful, i.e., absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome for the appellant, or phrased differently, our confidence in the verdict is undermined."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Duran · State v. Casey“'with respect to certain federal constitutional errors, the State [bears] the burden of proving that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Duran · State v. Cox
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.