7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 59 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 State v. Henderson.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State v. Henderson Anchor | green | “harmless error review places the burden on the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to or affect the verdict or sentence.” | 17 |
| 2 | State v. Newell | green | “we presume that the jurors followed the court's instructions.” | 16 |
| 3 | State v. Bruggeman | green | “closing arguments of counsel may be taken into account when assessing the adequacy of jury instructions.” | 12 |
| 4 | State v. Anthony | green | “we can find error harmless when the evidence against a defendant is so overwhelming that any reasonable jury could only have reached one conclusion.” | 5 |
| 5 | State v. Williams | green | “the test for determining whether a suggestive identification is otherwise reliable and admissible.” | 3 |
| 6 | State v. Schackart | green | “citations to the authorities, statutes and parts of the record relied on” | 3 |
| 7 | State v. Gilbert | green | “the defendant does not, however, suffer this same prejudice when a jury is determining the truth or falsity of a prior conviction after the conviction of the defendant for the offense charged.” | 3 |
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.