Commonwealth v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
November 1999
most recently cited
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Commonwealth v. Farquharson · Commonwealth v. Sparrow · Commonwealth v. Shoatz · Commonwealth v. Bastone
Most-quoted passages
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“was so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.” Commonwealth v. Martin, 481 Pa. 515, 520 , 393 A.2d 23, 25 (1978) (quoting Simmons v. United States, 390 U.S. 377, 384 , 88 S.Ct. 967, 971 , 19 L.Ed.2d 1247 (1968)). As the Martin Court stated:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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