Parker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Williams v. State (1979), Sypniewski v. State (1977)
99 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 Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Woodson v. North Carolina · Roberts v. Louisiana · Davis v. State
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The facts of paramount importance to this question relate to the opportunity of the witness to view the offender at the time of the offense: the duration for which the witness can observe the perpetrator; the distance separating them; the lighting conditions; and circumstances affecting the amount of attention the witness can devote to observing the guilty party.” 358 N.E.2d at 112 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitt v. State““Death, in its finality, differs more from life imprisonment than a 100-year prison term differs from one of only a year or two.” (Emphasis added) Woodson v. North Carolina, (1976) 96 S.Ct. 2978, 2991-2992 , 49 L.Ed.2d 944, 961 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Walker v. State“an in-court identification by a witness who has participated in an imper-missibly suggestive out-of-court identification is admissible if the witness has an independent basis for the in-court identification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.