McDowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Hillard v. State (1979), 3 Md. App. 11 - Boone v. State (1968)
75 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 Rodriguez v. New York · Mulcahy v. State · Judy v. State · Luery v. State · Wright 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [T]he corroboration need not be enough to convict exclusive of the accomplice’s testimony, and * * * ‘the important matter is to have * * * [the accomplice] supported in at least some of the material points involved, tending to show the guilt of the accused’ * * * [in that] ‘there must be corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice as to the identity of the accused with the perpetrators of the crime or the crime itself.’ * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Veney v. State““The Court of Appeals has stated that not much in the way of corroboration is needed and that the corroborative evidence by itself need not be sufficient to convict, but it must support the testimony of the accomplice as to some of the material facts tending to show that the accused was either identified with the perpetrators of the crime or had participated in the commission of the crime itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Arson is likely to be a clandestine offense and proof of it must often be by circumstantial evidence and inferences which may reasonably be drawn therefrom.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.