Buchanan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Roscoe (1984), Brodes v. State (2005)
38 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Johnson v. United States · Rosenblatt v. Baer
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“given by the court embodied correct statements of the controlling law on the subject of identification,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. State · Dayton v. State“We are of the view that if discovery is to be expanded beyond the provisions presently contained in our Rules of Criminal Procedure, [it is] more appropriate that such change come through amendment of our existing rules of procedure after full study by this court's Standing Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, the bench and the bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] procedure is unfair which suggests in advance of identification by the witness the identity of the person suspected by the police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gould v. State
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.