22 Cal. 3d 946 - Smith v. Mitchell P.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 39 Cal. 3d 836 - People v. Weidert (1985), 29 Cal. 3d 20 - People v. Szeto (1981)
106 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania · Breed v. Jones
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen a judge rather than a jury is trier of fact it is not unreasonable to assume he is more critical of accomplice testimony and more likely to accord it appropriate weight. Although juries are generally required upon demand by defendant in a criminal proceeding, the state is not constitutionally compelled to provide a jury in juvenile proceedings [citation].... It thus follows there is less reason for application of the arbitrary accomplice corroboration rule in juvenile court proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“went beyond mere suspicion of accomplice testimony. It expressed a more profound and sweeping judgment, `such testimony has been legislatively determined never to be sufficiently trustworthy to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt unless corroborated.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.