Munkers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably McMillan v. Aiken (1920), Bolling v. Kirby & Brother (1890)
28 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 Wilson v. State · Nutt v. State · Cunningham v. State · Humphrey v. Whitten · Lynes 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This clause of the statute was fully considered in Cunningham v. State, 73 Ala. 51 . It was then construed as not requiring that other witnesses shall testify to every fact testified to by the woman; but that its requirements are met, when the corroboration is of some matter which is an element of the offense, and its effect is to satisfy the jury that the corroborated witness has testified truly. The true rule is stated as follows: ‘That the corroboration shall be such as to convince the jury, beyond reasonable doubt, that the witness swore truly; but, to produce this conviction, it must be in a matter material to the issue, and must tend to connect the defendant with that material matter, and the matter itself must not be in its nature formal, indifferent, or harmless.’ This construction was reaffirmed in Wilson v. State, 73 Ala. 527 , at a subsequent term of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whatley 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.