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In Re Sk’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2010
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 240 Ga. App. 280 - Abney v. State · 265 Ga. App. 446 - Ellison v. State · 268 Ga. App. 384 - Williams v. State · 196 Ga. App. 776 - Kenney 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “although corroboration of the testimony by a single accomplice is necessary, that corroborating evidence itself need not be sufficient to warrant conviction, but need only tend to connect and identify defendant with the crime. The corroborating evidence may consist entirely of circumstantial evidence and may include defendant's conduct before and after the crime was committed. Whether the corroborating evidence is sufficient is a matter for the factfinder, and even slight evidence of corroboration connecting an accused to a crime is legally sufficient.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re MW
  2. “a defendant may not be convicted solely upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re MW

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.