Love v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 1307 · 1986
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Hall v. Washington (1997), United States v. Rodriguez (1989)
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Edwards v. Arizona
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he ultimate determination whether the identification is reliable is a mixed question of law and fact ..., findings of subsidiary facts made by the state court (i.e. the opportunity of the witness to observe the suspect) are entitled to a presumption of correctness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness' degree of attention, the accuracy of his prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated at the confrontation, and the time between the crime and the confrontation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violate[d] due process.”
1 later decision 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.