State v. McManus’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1981
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Kirby v. Illinois · Miller v. Pate · State v. Washington
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Short of that point, such evidence is for the jury to weigh. We are content to rely upon the good sense and judgment of American juries, for evidence with some element of untrustworthiness is customary grist for the jury mill. Juries are not so susceptible that they cannot measure intelligently the weight of identification testimony that has some questionable feature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mark
How this case has been treated — in progress
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