State v. Barriner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In our review of the trial court’s ruling, allowing the appellant’s confession over the appellant’s objection that it was involuntary, we consider not only the trial record, but also the record of the prior suppression hearings. Our review is limited to determining whether the trial court’s ruling is supported by substantial evidence. We will not overturn the trial court’s ruling absent manifest error. In our review, we are to pay deference to the trial court’s factual and credibility determinations in making its ruling, viewing the facts in a light most favorable to the ruling. Hence, the fact that there is support in the record for a contrary ruling is immaterial.”

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

2. “While reliability is the linchpin in determining the identification testimony's admissibility, the defendant 'must clear the suggestiveness hurdle before procuring a reliability review.'”

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

3. “then the defendant must show that they were so suggestive that there was a substantial likelihood that the reliability of the identification evidence was called into question.”

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