Semple v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Perry v. New Hampshire (2012), Perry v. New Hampshire (2012)
21 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 · Messer v. State · McClesky v. State · Thomason 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such a case, the question is whether there was a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification. Gravitt v. State, 239 Ga. 709, 710 (4) ( 239 SE2d 149 ) (1977). Factors to be considered in answering that inquiry include: (1) the witness’s opportunity to view the accused at the time of the crime; (2) the witness’s degree of attention; (3) the accuracy of the witness’s prior description of the accused; (4) the witness’s level of certainty at the confrontation with the accused; and (5) the length of time between the crime and the confrontation. Thomason v. State, 268 Ga. 298, 303-304 (3) ( 486 SE2d 861 ) (1997). The ultimate question is, whether under the totality of the circumstances, the identification is reliable. Neil v. Biggers, supra at 199 ; Messer v. State, 247 Ga. 316, 321 (3) ( 276 SE2d 15 ) (1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McBride v. State“the principle expressed in Neil v. Biggers , deals with the suggestiveness of an identification procedure used by police, and applies only to state action. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweet 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.