Webb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2023
5 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 General Public Utilities Corporation v. Susquehanna Valley Alliance · Commonwealth v. Kloiber · Smith v. Westchester County Bar Ass'n · Spuehler v. State · VanWoundenberg v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, neither this circumstance nor any other circumstances surrounding the photographic display[ ] made the lineup[ ] so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of misidentification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“although participants in pretrial photo displays should possess the same general physical characteristics as the accused, . . . substantial compliance with physical similarity guidelines will suffice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.