State v. Rasmussen’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Mathiasen (1964), State v. Adams (1980)
44 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 State v. Lawlor · State v. Soltau · State v. Smith · State Bank of Monticello v. Lindgren · State v. Clements
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'in some substantial degree tend[ ] to affirm the truth of [the accomplice's] testimony and ... point to the guilt of the defendant.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thoresen · State v. Smith“The entire conduct of the accused may be looked to for corroborating circumstances, and if from those circumstances the connection of the accused with the crime may fairly be inferred, the corroboration is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thoresen
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.