State v. Pollitt’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Figueroa (1995), State v. John (1989)
149 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant who moves to suppress identification evidence bears the initial burden of proving that the identification resulted from an unconstitutional procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution.”
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.