Sewell v. Cardwell’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
January 1972
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · Townsend v. Sain
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the pretrial identification procedures used in this case so tainted the in-trial identification as to deny petitioner's right to due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sewell v. Cardwell
How this case has been treated — in progress
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