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← 469 Md. 156 - Greene v. State

Greene v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2020

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The focus of the Supreme Court's 'identification law' jurisprudence is upon the imposition of due process limitations on efforts by the police to obtain from an eyewitness to the crime the identification of a criminal suspect.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “encounter with a total stranger under circumstances of emergency or emotional stress. The witness'[s] recollection of the stranger can be distorted easily by the circumstances or by later actions of the police.”
    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.