Williams v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1376 · 1989
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Orndorff v. Al Lockhart Holmes (1993), Frymire-Brinati v. KPMG Peat Marwick (1993)
21 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Franks v. Delaware · Neil v. Biggers · Santobello v. New York
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, [2] the witness’ degree of attention, [3] the accuracy of the witness’ prior description of the criminal, [4] the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and [5] the length of time between the crime and the confrontation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“factors positively supporting proper identification ... are outweighed on evaluation of the remaining factors”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Ieyoub
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.