State v. Schaffner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 758 So. 2d 749 - State v. Castleberry (1999), State v. Howard (1999)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Wood v. Strickland · 315 So. 2d 675 - State v. Carlisle · State v. Findley · United States v. Lee · 339 So. 2d 764 - State v. May
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is evidence that confirms material points in an accomplice's tale, and confirms the defendant's identity and some relationship to the situation.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hughes · State v. Hatch“A requested special charge shall be given by the court if it does not require qualification, limitation, or explanation, and if it is wholly correct and pertinent. It need not be given if it is included in the general charge or in another special charge to be given.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An accomplice is defined as one who is associated with another in the commission of a crime. The testimony of an accomplice witness may be competent evidence but it should be corroborated with real and independent evidence tending to implicate the defendant and not as to mere details of how the crime was committed. The corroboration should be of some material fact which is more than suspicion that defendant was involved. Accomplice witness testimony should be carefully examined and acted upon with great caution before being relied upon as competent evidence. An accomplice is defined as one who is associated with another in the commission of a crime and an accomplice is a competent witness, either for the state or for the defendant. Whether the accomplice has been convicted or not, whether he has pleaded guilty or nol pros or dismissal has been entered into, or whether he be joined in the same Bill of Information or Indictment with the person on trial or not, corroboration is desirable, but it is not always indispensable. The jury may convict on his uncorroborated testimony. And while it is not the rule of law, it is rather the rule of our experience in dealing with that class of testimony that while you may convict upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice, still you should set upon his testimony with great caution, subject to great careful examination of the weight of the other evidence in the case. And you are not to convict upon such testimony alone unless satisfi”
1 later decision 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.