Griswold v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 1200 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Manson v. Brathwaite · Sumner v. Mata · Sumner v. Mata · House v. Stynchcombe · Stern v. United States Gypsum, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These [factors] include the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witnesses’s degree of attention, the accuracy of his prior description of the criminal, level of certainty demonstrated at the confrontation, and the time between the crime and the confrontation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Love v. Young
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.