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← 1998 OKCR 3 - Matthews v. State

Matthews v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
July 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2025

1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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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 Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Payton v. New York · Brown v. Illinois · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary

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. “sufficiently an act of free will to purge the primary taint.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. BRAMLETT v. STATE · OLVERA v. STATE
  2. “When the crime at issue is not the one for which the defendant is being tried, the witness and the defendant are still accomplices if both could be indicted for the offense. This is regardless of whether either, or both, have been charged with the other offense. A witness who was an accomplice in a crime for which the defendant is not currently being tried may have as compelling a reason for testifying about the defendant's involvement in this other crime as would a witness who was an accomplice in the same crime for which the defendant is currently being tried. It makes no sense to deny a defendant instructions requiring that the accomplice's testimony be corroborated.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1999 OK CR 44 - Anderson v. State

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.