State v. Cotton’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably Shover v. Iowa Lutheran Hospital (1961), State v. Fetters (1972)
27 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 Hall v. Vanderpool · 40 W. Va. 405 - Union Trust Co. v. McClellan · Friedman v. City of Forest City · 156 Pa. Super. 375 - Smith Et Ux. v. Amer. Stores Co. · State v. Rand
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has repeatedly held that the corroboration need not be of every material fact testified to by the accomplice. The requirements of the statute are met if it can fairly be said that the accomplice is corroborated in some material fact legitimately tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense. The corroborating evidence may be either circumstantial or direct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fletcher
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.