22 Ohio App. 3d 119 - State v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 127 Ohio App. 3d 511 - State v. Thompson (1998), State v. Dickess (2008)
47 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 · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · Berger v. United States
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness' degree of attention, the accuracy of the witness' prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and the length of time between the crime and the confrontation * * *.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“although the identification procedure may have contained notable flaws, this factor does not, per se, preclude the admissibility of the identification.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Closing argument allows counsel to summarize the evidence presented and assist the jury in analyzing, evaluating, and applying the evidence.”
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.