Rutledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 2004
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rider v. State · Kirby 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“independent evidence merely consistent with the main story is not sufficient to corroborate it if it requires any part of the accomplice's testimony to make it tend to connect the defendant with the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Corroborating evidence must tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense absent the accomplice's testimony.”
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.