Grimes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004
16 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 Williams v. State · Wilburn v. State · Wrisper v. State · Bines v. State · Owen 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prove the corpus delicti in a charge of murder, it is essential to establish that the person alleged to have been killed is actually dead, and that death was caused or accomplished by violence or other direct criminal agency of another human being ... and that the accused caused the death in the manner charged. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State“One element of the corpus delicti is just as essential as the other. . . In the absence of extraneous evidence of all elements of the corpus delicti, the proof is insufficient to corroborate the confession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McVeigh v. State“A confession alone, uncorroborated by any other evidence, shall not justify a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McVeigh 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.