9 Cal. 4th 407 - People v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 district · 154 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 18 Cal. 4th 470 - People v. Flood (1998), 15 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Marshall (1997)
3 district · 154 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 · Arizona v. Fulminante · Sullivan v. Louisiana · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Richardson v. Marsh
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence ... is 'of such compelling force as to show beyond a reasonable doubt' that the erroneous instruction 'must have made no difference in reaching the verdict obtained.' [Citation.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e must inquire whether it can be determined, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the jury actually rested its verdict on evidence establishing the requisite [elements of the crime] independently of the force of the ... misinstruction. [Citation.]”
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.