State v. Lawlor’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Reed (1894), State v. Mathiasen (1964)
43 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Smith v. Handy · Erwin v. State · People v. Ames · Murphy v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Murray 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 43 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 he is corroborated by such other evidence as tends to convict the defendant of the commission of the offense, and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.” Cl. S. 1894, § 5767.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Korsch · State v. Clements““A reasonable construction of this section does not require a case to be made out against the prisoner sufficient for his conviction before the testimony of an accomplice can be considered, for that would make it available only when its necessity did not exist; neither do the terms used require such an interpretation. The corroborating evidence must, independently of the testimony of the accomplice, tend in some degree to establish the guilt of the accused, but need not be sufficiently weighty or full, as, standing alone, to justify a conviction,” — citing People v. Ames, 39 Cal. 403 ; Montgomery v. State, 40 Ala. 684 ; Craft v. State, 3 Kan. 450 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clements
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.