Rodriguez v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
February 2016
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Neil v. Biggers · Negron v. United States · Zaidi v. Northern Virginia Hospital Corp. · Bufalino v. United States · Bowling v. Commonwealth
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he factors to be considered in evaluating the likelihood of misidentification include the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness’ degree of attention, the accuracy of the witness’ prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and the length of time between the crime and the confrontation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any tendency to make the existence of any fact ... more probable or less probable....”
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.