State v. Thamer’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2018
11 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 United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Manson v. Brathwaite · Gilbert v. California · People v. Caruso
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]as [the identification procedure] so impermissively suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.... [I]f the [identification procedure was] impermis-sibly suggestive, then the in-court identification must be based on an untainted, independent foundation to be reliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Drawn“Any manipulation indicating that the police believe one of the photographs portrays the accused could lead to a finding of suggestiveness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Diaz
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.