State v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The first step is to determine ‘whether the identification procedure used was unnecessarily suggestive.’ State v. Gardiner, 686 A.2d 710, 715 (R.I.1994). The trial justice need not proceed to the next step of the analysis — whether the identification lacks independent reliability despite the procedure’s suggestiveness — unless the first part of the test is answered in the affirmative.” Id. at 844 (citing Mastracchio, 612 A.2d at 704 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jones

2. “this Court can affirm the judgment of the Superior Court on grounds not actually relied upon by the trial court to justify its ruling”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bruce MacNeil