State v. Legette’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably State v. Hunter (1980), State v. McDowell (1980)
56 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 Chapman v. State of California · Carroll v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Chambers v. Maroney
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Factors to be considered in evaluating the likelihood of mistaken identification include (1) the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, (2) the witness’ degree of attention, (3) the accuracy of the witness’ prior description of the criminal, (4) the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at confrontation, and (5) the length of time between the crime and the confrontation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“doctrine where the evidence showed that the butt end of the pistol was readily visible to Officer Jarrell as he stood outside the Plymouth. In State v. Virgil, 276 N.C. 217 , 172 S.E.2d 28 (1970), our Supreme Court held that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“make it impractical to secure a search warrant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.