Quigley v. Vose’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 14 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2019
9 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 Chapman v. State of California · Sandstrom v. Montana · Rose v. Clark · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Massa 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although these cases did not arise in the context of a jury instructed on multiple theories of guilt, one of which is improper, nothing in them suggests that a different harmless-error analysis should govern in that particular context. ... [¶] In fact, drawing a distinction between alternative-theory error and the instructional errors in [several cases including Neder ] would be 'patently illogical,' given that such a distinction ' "reduces to the strange claim that, because the jury ... received both a 'good' charge and a 'bad' charge on the issue, the error was somehow more pernicious than ... where the only charge on the critical issue was a mistaken one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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