State v. Leggett’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Green (1988), State v. Harris (1983)
82 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 Simmons v. United States · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe · Graves v. United States · Beal v. Franklin
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The test under the due process clause as to pretrial identification procedures is whether the totality of the circumstances reveals pretrial procedures so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification as to offend fundamental standards of decency, fairness and justice.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(4) Where the accused is not definitely identified as the perpetrator of the crime charged and the circumstances tend to show that the crime charged and another offense were committed by the same person, evidence that the accused committed the other offense is admissible to identify him as the perpetrator of the crime charged. [Citations omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“distorted view of the case before them by an initial exposure to the case through the stilted language of indictments and other pleadings.”
2 later decisions 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.