Cruz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Reed v. State (1988), Cathey v. State (1999)
32 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 · Greene v. Massey · Edwards v. State · Mitchell v. State · 166 Tex. Crim. 37 - Cawley 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the offense committed; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lane v. State · Westbrook v. State“[p]roof that an accused was present at or near the scene of a crime, when coupled with other suspicious circumstances, including subsequent flight, may tend to connect the accused to the commission of the offense.... The fact that [the defendant] lived [on the victim’s property] and had gone away around the time of the murder is of some significance, but, by itself, is not sufficient to connect appellant to the murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hernandez v. State“The test to determine the sufficiency of the corroboration is to eliminate from consideration the testimony of the accomplice witnesses and then examine the testimony of the other witnesses to ascertain if there is inculpatory evidence which tends to connect the accused with the commission of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Valdez 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.