State v. Cefalo’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Storey (1979), Taylor v. Commissioner of Mental Health & Mental Retardation (1984)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 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 United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial judge’s findings of historical facts on relevant identification issues will be overturned only when clearly erroneous. The legal conclusions drawn from those facts, however, are subject to the independent examination and judgment of the Law Court. Id. at 240.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Doughty“Having utilized an unfair means to establish defendant's guilt, the State must show that defendant was not harmed. by its own transgression.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bernal v. People“preventing the admission of unreliable identification testimony that may lead to the conviction of the innocent” and the interest in”
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.