State v. Moody’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Shindler (1994)
145 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 Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · State v. Wade
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * reliability is the linchpin in determining the admissibility of identification testimony * * *.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although the identification procedure may have contained notable flaws, this factor does not, per se, preclude the admissibility of the identification.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.'”
3 later decisions 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.