State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2016
7 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 Pointer v. Texas · Commonwealth v. Garvin · State v. Hagerman · United States v. Sacco · 22 Cal. App. 2d 126 - People v. Purcell
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any subsequent witness identification [following an illegal arrest] is not characterized as a “fruit” of an unlawful arrest. The basis of the identification is not the arrest but the witness’s perception of the accused during the crime. An identification otherwise valid does not come under the exclusionary rule because the arrest is illegal. The arrest merely provided the means for the confrontation with the victim more promptly than would otherwise have been the case. We cannot assume that the defendant would have remained at large indefinitely if he had not been arrested on this occasion. The arrest contributed neither to the knowledge of the witness nor to the accuracy of her identification. The trial judge properly admitted evidence of the lineup identification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dulsworth
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.