Gill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably McDuff v. State (1997), Dowthitt v. State (1996)
61 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 Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey · Reed v. State · Edwards v. State · Paulus v. State · Cherb 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is required is that there be some non-accomplice evidence which tends to connect the accused to the commission of the offense alleged in the indictment. Gosch v. State, 829 S.W.2d 775, 777 (Tex.Crim.App.1991) [cer t. denied, — U.S. -, 113 S.Ct. 3035 , 125 L.Ed.2d 722 (1993) ]. Judicial experience shows that no precise rule can be formulated as to the amount of evidence that is required to corroborate the testimony of an accomplice witness. Paulus v. State, 633 S.W.2d [827] at 844 [ (Tex.Crim.App.1982) ].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Matter of Cmg · Brosky v. State“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McAfee v. State · Matter of Cmg“We have also repeatedly held that evidence that an accused was in the company of the accomplice close to the time of the offense, coupled with other suspicious circumstances, may tend to connect the accused to the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Peden 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.