People v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 50 Cal. 2d 245 - People v. Lyons (1958), People v. Manson (1976)
137 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 People v. Newland · People v. Yeager · People v. Trujillo · People v. Negra · 31 Cal. App. 2d 52 - People v. Cabaltero
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]orroborating evidence ... is sufficient if it connect[s] the defendant with the commission of the crime in such a way as reasonably to satisfy the fact finding body that the accomplice is telling the truth.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The testimony of Roberts that he held the black pistol and that the defendant held the shotgun at the time of its discharge has some corroboration in the testimony of the victims in the cafe who stated that one of the culprits had a shotgun and the other a black pistol. "The testimony of the victims in the cafe that both men wore flesh-colored stockings as hoods with slits cut in them for eye holes shows circumstances in substantiation of the testimony of Roberts that he and the defendant wore hoods so described by him at the time of the commission of the crime. "We are satisfied that the cumulative effect of the testimony of the women companions of the two men, the testimony of Roberts' sister and the testimony of the victims in the cafe, none of whom could be deemed accomplices, point sufficiently to the establishment of the fact that the defendant was the other participant in the crime, and that the code requirements of evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime have been sufficiently met.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . In the case at bar, we are not called upon to hold that the corroborating evidence referred to is sufficient to sustain a conviction. All that is necessary in this case is to find that there is sufficient testimony in the record which tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime charged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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