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← 298 N.C. 725 - State v. Dunlap

State v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
3
states following
July 2006
most recently cited

26 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Keeble v. United States

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “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.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[I]t is the punishment fixed by the applicable statute and ... the punishment is not disproportionate to the offense for which defendant was convicted.”
    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.