Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2016
2 federal appellate · 19 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 · Manson v. Brathwaite · Gilbert v. California · Smith v. Hooey · McPhaul 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether in light of the totality of the closing argument the prosecuting attorney makes such an unmistakable reference to the pardon and parole system of Oklahoma to result in prejudice to defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Darks v. State“[A] cautionary instruction should be given where the witness lacked opportunity to observe the assailant, or where the witness was not positive in his identification, or where the identification was weakened by either qualification or by a failure to identify the defendant on a prior occasion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Klinekole v. State“to determine whether the witness is able to make an identification of the defendant which is independent of and severable from the pretrial procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen 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.