35 Ala. App. 13 - Fagan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably Miller v. State (1973), 397 So. 2d 577 - McCoy v. State (1981)
43 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 Sorrell v. State · 34 Ala. App. 137 - De Graaf v. State · Malachi v. State · Booth v. State · W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. v. Crossley
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.
““ ‘ * * * the proper test in determining whether there was sufficient corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice, according to statutory requirements, is first to eliminate the evidence of the accomplice and then, if upon ex- animation of all the other evidence there is sufficient inculpatory evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense, there is sufficient corroboration.’ 2 Wharton, Criminal Evidence § 752, 11th Ed.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“pass judgment on its possible truthfulness or falsity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.