Patterson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Christian v. United States (1978), Parks v. United States (1982)
32 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 · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Was the identification procedure “unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable misidentification”? (2) If so, given the “totality of the circumstances,” was the resulting identification reliable nonetheless?”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]t worst, the “refresher” photos produced a misleadingly current, positive identification derived from a previously untainted one. Just as a procedure devoid of suggestion cannot yield the “primary evil” of misidentification, ... a procedure that includes suggestive elements subsequent to an unequivocal, un-suggested identification does not pose an unconditional risk of misidentification— of trying and convicting the wrong person. [Id. at 667 (emphasis in original).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has formulated a broad standard of review which focuses upon the distinctive facts of each case in their totality, and which relies very heavily upon the special capacity and experience of judges, trial and appellate, to discriminate between real and fancied dangers of the miscarriage of justice. [Clemons v. United States, supra [ 133 U.S.App.D.C. 27 ] at 34, 408 F.2d [1230] at 1237.]”
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.