408 So. 2d 1221 - State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 796 So. 2d 649 - State v. Neal (2001), State v. Smith (1983)
108 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Bellotti v. Baird · State v. Lee · 365 So. 2d 1304 - State v. Phillips · 343 So. 2d 1026 - State v. Williams
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it appears that the state was required to negate any reasonable probability of misidentification in order to carry its burden of proof.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [E]ven if the accuracy of Long's assertion is accepted, it does not appear that any of Long's substantial rights were violated. This Court previously held in State v. Walker [ 261 La. 545 ], 260 So.2d 618 (La.1972) that the failure of the trial judge to hear evidence as to defendant's identification on a motion to suppress, instead of at trial, was harmless error and not cause for reversal. In Walker , as in the present case, the question of identification was properly disposed of during trial when the victim made a positive identification. Further, the main issue to be resolved in the prosecution was the accuracy of defendant's identification by the state's witnesses. As the record shows, the witnesses' opportunities for observation, the accuracy of these observations, and their credibility were all issues which the defendant fully litigated. It was not error for the trial judge to decide that these matters were more properly decided at trial rather than on a motion to suppress. Id. at 1224.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.