State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[i]t is the likelihood of misidentification which violates a defendant’s right to due process * * *. Suggestive confrontations are disapproved because they increase the likelihood of misidentification, and unnecessarily suggestive ones are condemned for the further reason that the increased chance of misidentification is gratuitous.” Biggers, 409 U.S. at 198 , 93 S.Ct. 375 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Patel

2. “we 'defer to the trial justice's findings of historical fact concerning the voluntariness of the confession unless those findings are clearly erroneous.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sendra Beauregard

3. “although [he] had one arm in a handcuff affixed to the wall, there [was] nothing in the record to suggest that he even was uncomfortable”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Marc Gouin