Nunley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2011
15 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 Burks v. United States · 84 Okla. Crim. 309 - Finley v. State · Glaze v. State · Howard v. State · 85 Okla. Crim. 376 - Fitzgerald 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the evidence is uncontroverted and it establishes that the witness is an accomplice, the trial judge must rule as a matter of law that the witness is an accomplice and instruct the jury that his testimony requires corroboration. Id. at 462 . Likewise, if the undisputed evidence indicates that the connection of the witness with the crime was innocent and lacking in criminal intent, or that he merely had knowledge and therefore is not an accomplice, the trial judge must also rule as a matter of law that the witness is not an accomplice. Id. at 462-463 . Only if the evidence is susceptible to alternative findings that the witness is or is not an accomplice, is the issue a question of fact which must be submitted with proper instructions to the jury. Id. at 463 .”
3 later decisions 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.