State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 1970 · most notably State v. Evans (1920), State v. O'Donnell (1900)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 Cross v. People · Davidson v. State
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.
““A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice, unless he be corroborated by such other evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime, and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely show the commission of the crime, or the circumstances of the commission”: Section 1540, L. O. L.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Edlund““The other exceptions are not available on this appeal, for the reason that the ruling of the trial court on a motion for a new trial cannot be assigned for error in this state. Our Code has made no provision for reviewing the ruling of the trial court on such motion, and therefore this court cannot examine the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pender““An accomplice is a person who knowingly, voluntarily, and with common intent with the principal offender, unites in the commission of a crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Busick
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.