Manson v. Brathwaite’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1,781 federal appellate · 237 district · 6,387 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10,027 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Kyles v. Whitley (1995), Arizona v. Youngblood (1989)
1,781 federal appellate · 237 district · 6,387 state decisions — followed in 48 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
reviewedBrathwaite v. Manson (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno
Cited together with Neil v. Biggers · Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · United States v. Wade · Strickland v. Washington
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 10,027 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”
589 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sumner v. Mata · Watkins v. Sowders“Juries are not so susceptible that they cannot measure intelligently the weight of identification testimony that has some questionable feature.”
93 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.