Hinton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
March 1965
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bowman v. Commonwealth · Conrad v. Commonwealth · Hunt v. Commonwealth · Taylor and Martin v. Commonwealth
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The established rule * * * that in determining whether the accomplice’s testimony is sufficiently corroborated, is to eliminate the testimony of the accomplice, and then measure the other testimony to ascertain if it tends to connect the accused with the commission of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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