State v. Motes’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2018
16 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Telfaire · People v. . Wood · 169 Pa. Super. 498 - Hunter v. Hunter · Hicks v. Hicks
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was designed to focus the attention of the jury on the identification issue and minimize the risk of conviction through false or mistaken identification”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smalls v. State“focus[ ] the attention of the jury on the necessity for a finding that the testimony identified defendant as the offender beyond a reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smalls v. State
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.