United States of America Ex Rel. James Springle, Relator-Appellant v. Harold M. Follette, Warden, Greenhaven Prison, Stormville, N. Y.’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.2d 1380 · 1970
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably United States v. Bynum (1973), United States v. Gaines (1971)
35 federal appellate · 7 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · Kotteakos v. United States · Simmons v. United States · 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)his fact of immediacy makes it much more likely that the witness will have a fresh recollection of the appearance of the suspect and hence that the identification will be accurate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sewell v. Cardwell“give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification”
1 later decision 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.