374 So. 2d 377 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2007
21 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 29 Ala. App. 349 - Wilkins v. State · Sorrell v. State · Miller v. State · Berry v. State · Lee v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether such corroborative evidence exists is a question of law to be determined by the trial court, its probative force and sufficiency being questions for the jury. Berry v. State, 231 Ala. 437 , 165 So. 97 . The corroborative evidence need not be strong nor sufficient in itself to support the conviction, since the sole criterion is only that it legitimately tends to connect the accused with the offense. Goodman v. State, 52 Ala.App. 265 , 291 So.2d 358 . “Also, corroboration of an accomplice’s testimony may be shown by circumstantial evidence. Hudson v. State, 49 Ala.App. 282 , 270 So.2d 828 ; Pryor v. State, 47 Ala.App. 706 , 260 So.2d 614 .” Thompson v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 374 So.2d 377, 384 , aff’d 374 So.2d 388 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. State
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.