376 So. 2d 803 - Craig v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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19 state decisions

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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.

1. “`Corroborative evidence need not directly confirm any particular fact nor go to every material fact stated by the accomplice. Bridges v. State , 52 Ala. App. 546 , 295 So.2d 266 (1974); Dykes v. State , 30 Ala. App. 129 , 1 So.2d 754 (1941). Corroborative evidence need not directly connect the accused with the offense but need only tend to do so. . . . In certain instances, association with the accomplice tending to show the accused's proximity, chronologically and geographically, to the alleged offense may furnish sufficient corroboration.'”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Massey v. State · 451 So. 2d 435 - Jackson v. State

2. “'A defendant's voluntary confession may . . . be considered corroborative evidence authorizing a conviction. Snoddy v. State , 75 Ala. 23 (1883); Jacks [v. State , 364 So.2d 397 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 364 So.2d 406 (Ala. 1978).]' Craig v. State , 376 So.2d 803 , 806 (Ala.Cr.App. 1979), writ denied, 376 So.2d 807 (Ala. 1979).”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 500 So. 2d 1273 - Hodges v. State · 668 So. 2d 881 - Phillips v. State

3. “"A conviction of felony cannot be had on the testimony of an accomplice unless corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense, and such corroborative evidence, if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof, is not sufficient."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 408 So. 2d 187 - Mills v. State · 418 So. 2d 168 - Caldwell v. State