State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2017
3 federal appellate · 16 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 9 Cal. 3d 546 - People v. Jones · State v. Young · State v. Reiman · State v. Williams · State v. Correia
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.
“does not require that corroborative evidence be produced which, by itself, would sustain a conviction. The rule is satisfied if such evidence in some substantial degree (1) tends to affirm the truth of the testimony of the accomplice, and (2) tends to establish the guilt of the defendant. Circumstantial evidence may be sufficient to corroborate the testimony of an accomplice, but if a circumstance is as consistent with innocence as with guilt, then it cannot be held to corroborate the testimony given by the accomplice. (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it is corroborated by other evidence which tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense. The corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense, or the circumstances thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Laib · State v. Feyereisen““Except where time is of the essence, it is not error to give an instruction that submits the happening of the offense at anytime within the limitation period.” The fact that an alibi defense is interposed does not, ipso facto, make the “on or about” instruction erroneous. Rather, this court must examine whether or not the jury is misled by the instruction into improperly rejecting the alibi.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sonen
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.