45 Cal. 2d 218 - People v. MacEwing’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 50 Cal. 2d 245 - People v. Lyons (1958), People v. Brown (1958)
5 federal appellate · 139 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. Buffum · People v. Gallardo · People v. Durrant · 98 Cal. App. 2d 1 - People v. Griffin · 25 Cal. 2d 341 - People v. Wilson
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendants also assign as error the trial court’s action in adding a sentence to an instruction given at their request. The court instructed, first, ‘The legal test you must apply in determining whether the testimony of Prawley was corroborated is to eliminate the testimony of Prawley and examine the other evidence to determine if such other evidence, standing alone and without support from the testimony of Prawley, fairly, logically, directly and immediately tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the alleged crimes.’ The court then added: ‘The corroborating evidence may take interpretation and direction from the testimony of Prawley to give it meaning and value.’ “The decisions applying section 1111, relating to accomplices, hold that the corroborative evidence required by that provision must be considered without the aid of the testimony which is to be corroborated and that it is not sufficient if it requires the interpretation and direction of such testimony in order to give it value. (People v. Hoyt, 20 Cal.2d 306, 312 [ 125 P.2d 29 ]; People v. Shaw, 17 Cal.2d 778, 805-806 [ 112 P.2d 241 ] ; People v. Rankin, 10 Cal.2d 198, 201 [ 74 P.2d 71 ] ; People v. Davis, 210 Cal. 540, 554-559 [ 293 P. 32 ]; People v. Reingold, 87 Cal.App.2d 382, 393, 408 [ 197 P.2d 175 ] ; People v. Garrison, 80 Cal.App.2d 458, 461 [ 181 P.2d 738 ] ; People v. Sawaya, 46 Cal.App.2d 466 , 469 et seq. [ 115 P.2d 1001 ].) There are two opinions which, although not clear, indicate that”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * The corroborating evidence is sufficient if it tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime in such a way as may reasonably satisfy the jury that the witness who must be corroborated is telling the truth.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"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 *Page 181 of the offense, and such corroborative evidence, if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof, is not sufficient."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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