Prime v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2021
1 district · 18 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Rochin v. People of California · Kirby v. Illinois · Rock v. Arkansas · Satterwhite v. Texas
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Identification testimony is an expression of belief or impression of the witness. Its value depends on the opportunity the witness had to observe the offender at the time of the offense and to make a reliable identification later.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pearson v. State“what occurred is not a ground for reversal because, in the context of the trial, this event did not prejudice Prime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State“[w]hile such incidents should be avoided in the trial of a case, this occurrence is not a ground for reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State
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.