State v. Boettcher’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 360 So. 2d 500 - State v. Drew (1978), State v. Madison (1977)
28 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Faretta v. California · United States v. Wade · Ohio v. Kentucky · Romano 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... we conclude that an accused has no constitutional or legal right to order a lineup. However, we likewise conclude that a district court has broad discretion to order one or not, in the interests of the fairness of the identification of the defendant, upon proper showing of an exceptional nature that otherwise the trial testimony as to his visual identification (if a material issue) may not be reliable."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court likewise has broad discretion to order protective measures other than a pretrial line-up, such as by seating the defendant elsewhere than in the normal place of an accused in the courtroom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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