Cotton v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 320 · 1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Manson v. Brathwaite · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Rogers v. United States · United States v. Telfaire · Graham v. Solem
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[C]onvictions based on eyewitness identification at trial following a pretrial indentification by photograph will be set aside * * * only if the photographic identification procedure was so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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