State v. Elsberg’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1976
10 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 Commonwealth v. Trefethen · State v. Smith · State v. Ettenberg
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * So far as we can find, however, no case has gone so far as to hold that the mere fact that the jury does not believe the accused’s denial of guilt and considers it false constitutes sufficient evidence of fraudulent conduct on accused’s part to support the evidence of an accomplice or constitutes additional evidence against the accused. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor““A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice, unless it is corroborated by such other evidence as tends to convict the defendant of the commission of the offense, and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rasmussen
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.