Plummer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““INSTRUCTION NUMBER 6: You are instructed that an ‘accomplice’ is one who, with criminal intent, is concerned with others in the commission of a crime, either by being present participating in it, or, not being present, by aiding and abetting it, or by having advised and encouraged its commission, though not present when it is committed.” “INSTRUCTION NUMBER 7: You are instructed that a conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice or accomplices, unless they be corroborated by such other evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense, and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof. In this connection, you are further instructed that the testimony of one accomplice is not corroboration for the testimony of another accomplice.” “INSTRUCTION NUMBER 8: You are instructed that in this case the witness, David Young, who testified herein, is an admitted accomplice, and for that reason you cannot convict the defendant upon the testimony of said witness unless you find that other evidence in the case than the testimony of the witness connects the defendant, Thomas Lee Pack, with the commission of the offense. You are further instructed that such corroborating evidence may be circumstantial, and it is not necessary that the required corroborative evidence cover every material point testified to by the said accomplice, and it is sufficient if you find that the evidence o”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pack v. State