United States v. Matlock’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 504 · 1974
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably State v. Lundgren (1995), United States v. Warner (1982)
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Webb v. Texas · Gregory v. United States
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On these facts this court held that, under the circumstances of this case no prejudice has been shown for the acts were not ‘so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification that [defendant] was denied due process of law.’ Stovall v. Denno, 388 U.S. 293 , 87 S.Ct. 1967 , 18 L.Ed.2d 1199 (1967). Nothing in the record indicates that the confrontation was arranged by the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.