State v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably State v. McClendon (1986), State v. Doe (1997)
2 federal appellate · 62 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
Relies on United States v. Agurs · Gerstein v. Pugh · State v. Toohill · State v. Reinke · 20 Cal. 3d 109 - People v. Rollo
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conviction cannot be had on the testimony of an accomplice, unless he is corroborated by other evidence, which in itself, and without the aid of the testimony of the accomplice, tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient, if it merely shows the commission of the offense, or the circumstances thereof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Campbell · State v. Pecor“Allen’s prior felony, described as being similar to incest, appears to fall within the third category [noted in Ybarra]. It is a crime of passion. Although condemned and punished by the law, such conduct does not bear directly upon honesty or veracity. Neither does this single crime establish a pattern of disrespect for law and lawful authority. It has little or no relevance to Allen’s credibility in the present case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Franco“different felonies have different degrees of probative value on the issue of credibility. Some, such as perjury, are intimately connected with that issue; others, such as robbery and burglary, are somewhat less relevant; and ... [a]cts of violence ... generally have little or no direct bearing on honesty and veracity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen
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.