Gullick v. Perrin’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 1 · 1981
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2021
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under our adversary system of justice, cross-examination has always been considered a most effective way to ascertain the truth. We decline in these cases to hold that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment inevitably requires that abandonment of the time-honored process of cross-examination as the device best suited to determine the trustworthiness of testimonial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e decline the [defendant’s] invitation to reexamine the difficult questions raised in the literature concerning the reliability of eyewitness testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“we adhere to the established view that reliability is generally a jury question, unless the district court finds evidence of suggestivity....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.