55 Ala. App. 658 - Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1997 · most notably 369 So. 2d 863 - Weatherford v. State (1979), 401 So. 2d 276 - Hobbs v. State (1981)
29 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 United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Biggers v. State of Tennessee · Bates 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although a showup is inherently suggestive, it is also considered to be consistent with good police work when done promptly after the commission of the crime. Donahoo v. State , Ala.Cr.App., 371 So.2d 68 ; Robinson v. State , 55 Ala. App. 658 , 318 So.2d 354 ; Cornelius v. State , 49 Ala. App. 417 , 272 So.2d 623 . . . . "Judge Burger, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in Bates v. United States , 132 U.S.App.D.C. 36 , 405 F.2d 1104 , stated: "`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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[T]he police action in returning the suspect to the vicinity of the crime for immediate identification in circumstances such as these fosters the desirable objectives of fresh, accurate identification which in some instances may lead to the immediate release of an innocent suspect and at the same time enable the police to resume the search for the fleeing culprit while the trail is fresh. . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was brought to the store by police officers a few minutes after the robbery”
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.