61 Cal. 2d 373 - People v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 672 - People v. Cantrell (1973), 7 Cal. 3d 756 - People v. Perry (1972)
115 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · People v. Newland · 28 Cal. 2d 306 - People v. Peete · 53 Cal. 2d 322 - People v. Wade · 54 Cal. 2d 621 - People v. Gould
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence need not corroborate the accomplice as to every fact to which he testifies but is sufficient if it does not require interpretation and direction from the testimony of the accomplice yet tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense in such a way as reasonably may satisfy a jury that the accomplice is telling the truth; it must tend to implicate the defendant and therefore must relate to some act or fact which is an element of the crime but it is not necessary that the corroborative evidence be sufficient in itself to establish every element of the offense[] charged. [Citations.].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Luker
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.