State v. Norrid’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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

1. “The opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness’ degree of attention, the accuracy of his prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated at the confrontation, and the time between the crime and the confrontation. Against these factors is to be weighed the corrupting effect of the suggestive identification itself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Addai

2. “Under the Stovall due process test, the determination of the admissibility of an identification involves a two-pronged analysis of (1) whether the identification procedure is impermissibly suggestive, and (2) if so, whether the identification nevertheless is reliable under the totality of the circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re RWS

3. “identification testimony must be suppressed if, under the totality of the circumstances, the procedure for identification `was so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification' to constitute a denial of due process.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re RWS