State v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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

1. ““1) [Opportunity to view the criminal at the time of the commission of the crime; 2) freshness of the identification; 3) accuracy of the original description of the criminal; 4) adequacy of the lighting; 5) proximity of the criminal; 6) failure to identify other suspects; 7) promptness of the identification; 8) positiveness with which the identification is made; 9) existence of prior photographic identification.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Barlow

2. ““[t]he burden in such a case is on the State to affirmatively show additional circumstances either mitigating the suggestiveness initially indicated, or provide a justification or excuse for the practice in accordance with the standard that particularly compelling or exigent circumstances make the practice reasonably necessary.” State v. Rowe, Me., 314 A.2d 407, at 413 (1974).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Caplan

3. ““the length of time during which the witness observed the criminal at the commission of the crime, her close proximity to him, the bright lighting conditions in the bank, the witness’ heightened observation due to her suspicions, her prior photographic identification and her confidence as to identification . . .” 314 A.2d, at 415.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Barlow