Anderson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably McDuff v. State (1997), Leday v. State (1998)
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 Thomas v. State · Penagraph v. State · Hawkins v. State · Esquivel v. State · O'BRYAN 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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he testimony of an accomplice witness in a capital murder case need not be corroborated on the element which elevated the murder to a capital murder. Holladay v. State, 709 S.W.2d 194 (Tex.Cr.App.1986). There is only one rule for the corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice witness. Art. 38.14, V.A.C. C.P. This rule applies to all crimes, including capital murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Inadmissible evidence can be rendered harmless if other evidence at trial is admitted without objection and it proves the same fact that the inadmissible evidence sought to prove.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · Brown v. State“In sum, where the State relies upon an accomplice witness’ testimony to convict the accused for a particular offense, the accomplice witness’ testimony must be both material and must be corroborated by independent evidence tending to connect the accused with that offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hadley 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.