Canada v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2020
1 district · 20 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · People v. Thiret · United States v. Sealey
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This argument is singularly unconvincing. The many similarities between the two crimes make evidence of the second highly probative of the identities of the perpetrators of the first. These similarities include the following: both robberies took place in deserted bars very late at night; in both robberies one of the perpetrators first entered alone and ordered a beer in order to case the bar; in both robberies at least one of the perpetrators wore a mask; and in both robberies the perpetrators were armed with shotguns. Finally, the modus operandi common to the two robberies was unique in comparison with other robberies in the manner in which the perpetrators savaged their victims. We conclude that the difficulty in identifying the perpetrators coupled with the high degree of similarity between the crimes made the evidence of [the] other robbery more probative than prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bolin v. State“`[E]vidence of prior criminal behavior may only be admitted to prove identity when its prejudicial effect is outweighed by the evidence's probative value and when that prior behavior demonstrates characteristics of conduct which are unique and common to both the defendant and the perpetrator whose identity is in question.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fields v. State“the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness degree of attention, SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 3 (0) I947A 444EA. the accuracy of his prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated at the confrontation, and the time between the crime and the confrontation.”
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.