State v. Jacob’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Lotter (1998), State v. Thomas (2002)
102 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 · Giglio v. United States · Doyle v. Ohio · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Ross v. Oklahoma
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Jacob] argues that the trial court erred in allowing [the witness’] identification testimony into evidence. Jacob asserts that [the witness’] testimony is unreliable, is the result of a suggestive “showup” at the preliminary hearing for the first trial, and is based on seeing Jacob identified as a suspect on television and in the newspaper. Prior to trial, the court overruled Jacob’s motion to suppress the eyewitness identification . . . based upon its alleged suggestive nature. The court again overruled an objection to [the witness’] identification during trial. During trial, [the witness] testified that when he saw a picture of Jacob on the news, he called the police to tell them that he had seen that person drive by shortly after the shooting. He clarified, however, that his testimony identifying Jacob as the man who drove by was based on what he saw while standing in front of the neighbor’s house. The admissibility of evidence is reviewed for an abuse of discretion where the Nebraska Rules of Evidence commit the evidentiary question at issue to the discretion of the trial court. . . . The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing [the witness’] testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Faust““Credibility, ladies and gentlemen. Does it make sense? As you judge credibility, ladies and gentlemen, recall. Recall. Who has had five years to think of his answers, five years to run through all of this. Five years to prepare. Who sat through this trial and heard every witness and every question. Who sat on the stand and didn’t want to answer the question that was posed, he wanted to give his own answer. Credibility, ladies and gentlemen. That’s your job to decide.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nesbitt
How this case has been treated — in progress
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