Ex Parte Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Cathey v. State (1999), Bullard v. Estelle (1982)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Stovall v. Denno · Burks v. United States · Linkletter v. Walker · Abney v. United States · Desist v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this jurisdiction, when the evidence is insufficient to corroborate an accomplice witness, the jury cannot properly return any verdict except an acquittal. We therefore hold that the Burks-Greene rule does apply to cases in which the evidence is insufficient to corroborate the testimony of the accomplice witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cathey v. State · Robinson v. State“In all cases where, by law, two witnesses, or one with corroborating circumstances, are required to authorize a conviction, if the requirement be not fulfilled, the court shall instruct the jury to render a verdict of acquittal, and they are bound by the instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cathey v. State“(Emphasis added). We construe this phrasing to indicate that the reliance component, while not wholly absent, will be of lesser significance in the double jeopardy area. Ex Parte Reynolds, 588 S.W.2d 900, 903 (Tex.Crim.App.1979). Far from reliance being”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bullard v. Estelle
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.