913 So. 2d 306 - Roche v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) 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 exhibited by the witness at the confrontation; and (5) the time between the crime and the confrontation.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Desmon Ray Lee v. State of Mississippi · Ford v. State

2. “whether or not substantial credible evidence supports the trial court's findings that, considering the totality of the circumstances, in-court identification testimony was not impermissibly tainted.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burton v. State · 958 So. 2d 192 - Lattimore v. State

3. “an impermissibly suggestive pre-trial identification does not preclude in-court identification by an eyewitness who viewed the suspect at the procedure unless: (1) from the totality of the circumstances surrounding it, (2) the identification was so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 958 So. 2d 192 - Lattimore v. State · 928 So. 2d 840 - Isom v. State