State v. Ledbetter’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Ledbetter (2005), State v. Pierre (2006)
104 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 United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have recognized that an arraignment identification may be 'suggestive' "); see also State v. Ledbetter , 185 Conn. 607 , 613, 441 A.2d 595 (1981) ("[t]he mischief involved in the arraignment observation is the real possibility that the victim of one crime, armed with the * knowledge that the suspect is being charged with another crime, possibly of the same character, is more likely to leap to the conclusion that the person being arraigned in front of him committed both crimes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris“challenges [relating to the reliability of identifications that are not tainted by improper procedure] go to the weight rather than to the admissibility of the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris“Pictorial recurrence is suggestive because by emphasizing the defendant it increases the risk of misidentification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.