State v. Chen’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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

1. “Because of the pivotal role identification evidence plays in criminal trials, and the risk of misidentification and wrongful conviction from suggestive behavior-whether by governmental or private actors-a private actor's suggestive words or conduct will require a preliminary hearing ... in certain cases to assess whether the identification evidence is admissible.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of Maine v. Matthew R. Davis

2. “[Pjarticipants who were [wrongly] told by the [co-witness] that the accomplice had blue eyes were significantly more likely than control participants to provide this information when asked to give a verbal descrip- • tion.”); Lorraine Hope et al.,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dennis v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections