Bates v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 1104 · 1968
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 7 district · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Russell v. United States (1969), 46 Ill. 2d 177 - The People v. Hudson (1970)
93 federal appellate · 7 district · 138 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Stovall v. Denno · Desist v. United States · Biggers v. State of Tennessee · Wise 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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no prohibition against a viewing of a suspect alone in what is called a 'one-man showup' when this occurs near the time of the alleged criminal act; such a course does not tend to bring about misidentification but rather tends under some circumstances to insure accuracy.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Of course, due process is not always violated when the police fail to assemble a lineup but conduct a one-man showup.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.