State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1995
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 Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Remmer v. United States · Brown v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You should view identification testimony with caution if the witness’ opportunity for positive identification was not good, if his testimony was qualified, if his positive statements were weakened by cross examination or by his failure to identify defendant on one or more prior occasions, or if the accuracy of his testimony was doubtful. Caution is in order whenever you perceive weaknesses of any kind in the identification evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mastracchio
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.