Couch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
October 1972
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Beatty v. State · JAY v. State · Myers v. State · Coffer v. State · Green 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Furthermore, there is no deficiency which this court may consider because of the fact that the state’s case was based solely upon the testimony of the accomplices. In this state an accomplice is a competent witness and his testimony will sustain a conviction even if there is no corroboration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barefoot v. State
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.