State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Jackson (1983), State v. Wilson (1985)
136 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 · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Texas v. Louisiana · Alabama v. Battles
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime; (2) the witness's degree of attention; (3) the accuracy of the witness's prior description of the criminal; (4) the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation; and (5) the length of time between the crime and the confrontation.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“Identification evidence must be excluded as violating a defendant's right to due process where the facts reveal a pretrial identification procedure so impermissibly suggestive that there is a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the absence of any evidence tending to show that the original book of photos was not available because of a `cover-up,' we decline to endorse a presumption that the reason the book was unavailable was due to police misconduct.”
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.