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State v. Hafner’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

118
cited by 118 later decisions
4
states following
September 2011
most recently cited

115 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably State v. Williams (1987), State v. Singh (2002)

115 state decisions

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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 · Berger v. United States · William Marbury v. James Madison

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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]t has been generally recognized that the presentation of several photographs to witnesses, including that of the suspect—the basic procedure used by the police in this case—is by itself a nonsuggestive and constitutionally acceptable practice, in the absence of any unfairness or other impropriety in the conduct of the exhibit.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. State v. Johnson
  2. “[T]he principle is well established that serious prosecutorial misconduct, regardless of the prosecutor's intention, may so pollute a criminal prosecution as to require a new trial, even without regard to prejudice to the defendant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 109 Conn. App. 431 - State v. JUAN V.
  3. “the practice of the majority of jurisdictions in according the absence of bad faith by the prosecutor considerable weight, depending upon the circumstances of the case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 2003 Conn. Super. Ct. 1539 - Utz v. Warden, No. Cv97-0002388 (Jan. 28, 2003)

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.