Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Butts v. State (2001), Lance v. State (2002)
50 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Neil v. Biggers · Payne v. State · Durden v. State · State v. Luke
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is error to allow testimony concerning a pre-trial identification of the defendant if the identification procedure was impermissibly suggestive and, under the totality of the circumstances, the suggestiveness gave rise to a substantial likelihood of misidentification.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rivers v. State · Jordan v. State“[I]f the court does not find that the lineup was suggestive then it need not reach the issue of whether there was a substantial likelihood of misidentification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. State“An identification procedure is impermissibly suggestive when it leads the witness to an 'all but inevitable identification' of the defendant as the perpetrator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan 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.