State v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 1975
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harris v. United States · Henry v. Mississippi · Viscardi v. United States · United States v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Perkins 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The jury was made well aware that the witness was not making a positive identification of the accused as one of the persons seen by him, but only that he fit the general description of such persons. It was, we think, relevant circumstantial evidence, and that the objection goes to the weight rather than the admissibility of the testimony. It differs little, if any, from testimony as to the color or kind of apparel worn by a person at the scene of the crime when that is material, although circumstantial only."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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