United States Crist v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 476 · 1984
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Williams v. Chrans (1991), Williams v. Lane (1987)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Wainwright v. Sykes · Rose v. Lundy · Smith v. Phillips
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he essence of due process is fundamental fairness. The Constitution guarantees a fair trial, not a perfect one.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The heart of due process analysis in cases of alleged prosecutorial misconduct is the fairness of the trial when viewed in its entirety, not the culpability of the prosecutor.... The appropriate inquiry, therefore, is not whether the prosecutor's conduct is conduct which is undesirable, erroneous, or even 'universally condemned,' but [whether] it violated some right which was guaranteed to the defendant by the Fourteenth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'police are not required [in arranging a photographic display of suspects] to conduct a search for identical twins in age, height, weight or facial features .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.