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← 377 S.C. 396 - Speaks v. State

Speaks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Telfaire · Cherry v. State · Butler v. State · State v. Patterson

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

  1. “admonish[ing] the trial bench that in single witness identification cases the court should instruct the jury that the burden of proving the identity of the defendant rests with the state”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “was designed to focus the attention of the jury on the identification issue and minimize the risk of conviction through false or mistaken identification”
    1 later decision 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.