Rimmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 63 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness' degree of attention, the accuracy of the witness' prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and the length of time between the crime and the confrontation.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reed v. State · Brodes v. State

2. “Although appellant does not argue the proportionality of the death sentence in this case, this Court must nevertheless conduct a proportionality review.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 907 So. 2d 489 - Green v. State · 934 So. 2d 1128 - Reynolds v. State

3. “(1) whether the police used an unnecessarily suggestive procedure to obtain the out-of-court identification; and (2) if so, considering all the circumstances, whether the suggestive procedure gave rise to a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 900 So. 2d 495 - Fitzpatrick v. State · 930 So. 2d 802 - Gillis v. State