State v. Findlay’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Williams (1987), State v. Hines (1998)
133 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 · Manson v. Brathwaite · Kirby v. Illinois · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co.
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent exigent circumstances that require police officers promptly [to establish] either the defendant's complicity or his innocence ... the showing of a single photograph of a defendant is almost always unnecessarily and impermissibly suggestive.”
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.