State v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Colon (2004), State v. Ledbetter (2005)
96 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Bagley · Manson v. Brathwaite
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An identification procedure is unnecessarily suggestive only if it gives rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] defendant may introduce evidence which indicates that a third party, and not the defendant, committed the crime with which the defendant is charged. The defendant, however, must show some evidence which directly connects a third party to the crime with which the defendant is charged. . . . It is not enough to show that another had the motive to commit the crime . . . nor is it enough to raise a bare suspicion that some other person may have committed the crime of which the defendant is accused. . . . The admissibility of evidence of third party culpability is governed by the rules relating to relevancy. . . . No precise and universal test of relevancy is furnished by the law, and the question must be determined in each case according to the teachings of reason and judicial experience. . . . The trial court has wide discretion in its rulings on evidence. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The van traveled through some traffic lights and then entered a highway. After the van had traveled a short distance, it stopped near the side of the road. Diaz-Marrero exited the van and ordered the victims to get out, and they complied. Caraballo and [the petitioner] remained in the van. Several shots were then fired. Diaz-Marrero returned to the van without the victims and said to [the petitioner], '[l]et's get out of here.' A few minutes later, Diaz-Marrero threw the shotguns out the passenger side window of the van. The van then returned to Hartford. Caraballo was let out on Park Street.”
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.