Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... if under our law an accused must be acquitted if the state’s case is based on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice, then that determination on appeal prohibits retrial just as it does when acquittal occurs at the trial. The reason for reversal is not “error” but insufficiency of the state’s proof.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Williams v. State · Anderson Gene Dubois v. A.L. Lockhart, Etc.

2. “The test for determining the sufficiency of corroborating evidence is whether, if the testimony of the accomplice were totally eliminated from the case, the other evidence independently establishes the crime and tends to connect the accused with its commission.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Andrews v. State

3. “corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense. The corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows that the offense was committed and the circumstances thereof.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Andrews v. State