Burton v. Foltz’s Empirical Analysis

810 F.2d 118 · 1987

Citation profile

cited by 9 later decisions

states following

August 1992

most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1992

5 federal appellate · 2 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 · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Rose v. Lundy · Sandstrom v. Montana · Rose v. Clark

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

““[application of the harmless error standard permits the reviewing court to uphold the conviction only if it ‘may confidently say, on the whole record, that the constitutional error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.’ Delaware v. Van Arsdall, [475] U.S. [673], 106 S.Ct. 1431 , 1436, 89 L.Ed.2d 674 (1986); see Merlo v. Bolden, 801 F.2d 252 , 257 (6th Cir.1986).” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Alexander v. Foltz
“Francis, 471 U.S. at 325 , 105 S.Ct. at 1977 . Even though the trial court erred in giving the above instruction, the appellant's conviction will be upheld if the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Rose v. Clark, 478 U.S. 570 , 106 S.Ct. 3101 , 92 L.Ed.2d 460 (1986). The Supreme Court in a later case explaining Rose v. Clark , wrote:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 555 So. 2d 196 - Freeman v. State

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.