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9 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 161 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Sullivan v. Louisiana.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sullivan v. Louisiana Anchor | green | “is not whether, in a trial that occurred without the error, a guilty verdict would surely have been rendered, but whether the guilty verdict actually rendered in this trial was surely unattributable to the error.” | 65 |
| 2 | Sullivan v. Louisiana | green | “the inquiry, in other words, is not whether, in a trial that occurred without the error, a guilty verdict would surely have been rendered, but whether the guilty verdict actually rendered in this trial was surely unattributable to the error.” | 19 |
| 3 | State v. Garcia | green | “harmless error is 'error unimportant in relation to everything else the jury considered on the issue in question, as revealed in the record.” | 16 |
| 4 | Sullivan v. Louisiana | green | “the inquiry ... is not whether, in a trial that occurred without the error, a guilty verdict would surely have been rendered, but whether the guilty verdict actually rendered in this trial was surely unattributable to the error.” | 15 |
| 5 | State v. Perry | green | “a defendant appealing from an objected-to, non-constitutionally-based error shall have the duty to establish that such an error occurred, at which point the state shall have the burden of demonstrating that the error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.” | 14 |
| 6 | United States v. Hasting | green | “it is the duty of a reviewing court to consider the trial record as a whole and to ignore errors that are harmless, including most constitutional violations.” | 10 |
| 7 | State v. Saia | green | “appeals in criminal cases are not granted merely to test the correctness of the trial court's ruling, but only to rectify injuries caused thereby.” | 10 |
| 8 | State v. Hector B. Almaraz, Jr. | green | “in other words, the error is harmless if the court finds that the result would be the same without the error.” | 7 |
| 9 | State v. Johnson | green | “that the introduction of inadmissible other crimes evidence results in a trial error subject to harmless error analysis.” | 5 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.