Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Dowthitt v. State (1996), Munoz v. State (1993)
36 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 Scharffe v. Perkins · Marquez v. Texas · Paulus v. State · Passmore v. State · Harris 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 36 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. Crawford v. State · Yost v. State“When determining the sufficiency of accomplice-witness corroboration, it is improper to focus on whether the other evidence, standing alone, is sufficient to establish the guilt of the accused. Evidence corroborating an accomplice witness’ testimony does not need to establish the guilt of the accused. Additionally, the evidence does not need to directly connect the accused to the crime. It need only be evidence which tends to connect the accused with the offense committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wisenbaker 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.