Fincher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Gamble v. State · Collis v. State · Johnston v. State · Lee 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Lee v. State, 485 P.2d 482 (Okl.Cr.1971), Judge Brett explained that “a conviction for rape may be had on the uncorroborated testimony of the prosecutrix where her testimony is not inherently improbable, or unworthy of credence.” Id. at 484 . We elaborated on this standard in Gamble v. State, 576 P.2d 1184 (Okl.Cr.1978), and held a conviction on uncorroborated testimony of the prosecu-trix could only be overturned if “[t]he testimony [was] of such contradictory and unsatisfactory nature, or [that] the witness [was] so thoroughly impeached, that the reviewing court [can] say that such testimony is clearly unworthy of belief and insufficient as a matter of law to sustain a conviction.” Id. at 1186 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commander v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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