Sperry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1980
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pickens v. State · Nation v. State · Sizemore v. State · Sanders v. State · Story 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the sufficiency of the evidence to corroborate an accomplice is challenged, Court of Criminal Appeals will take the strongest view of the corroborating testimony that such testimony will warrant, and, if it can say that there is corroborating evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense, it will uphold the verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wampler v. State
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.