Jacinth v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2017
23 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 Opper v. United States · State v. Chaney · Whitton v. State · Donlun v. State · Beck 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we think the better rule to be that the corroborative evidence need not be sufficient, independent of the statements, to establish the corpus delicti. It is necessary, therefore, to require the Government to introduce substantial independent evidence which would tend to establish the trustworthiness of the statement. Thus, the independent evidence serves a dual function. It tends to make the admission reliable, thus corroborating it while also establishing independently the other necessary elements of the offense. It is sufficient if the corroboration supports the essential facts admitted sufficiently to justify a jury inference of their truth. Those facts plus the other evidence besides the admission must, of course, be sufficient to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ray · State v. Ray“In order to justify submitting this case to the jury, therefore, the trial judge was required to have found “substantial independent evidence which would tend to establish the trustworthiness” of Jacinth’s confession.... [W]e can detect no error in the superior court’s finding that appellant’s confession was sufficiently corroborated to justify presenting the case to a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodds v. State“[There is no requirement that the sentencing judge utter the phrase 'worst offender.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.