Hernandez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Cathey v. State (1999), Brown v. State (2008)
63 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 Liteky v. United States · Cablevision Co. v. Motion Picture Ass'n of America, Inc. · Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena · Benson v. Empire State Bank · Tennessee v. Middlebrooks
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The accomplice witness rule is satisfied if there is some non-accomplice evidence which tends to connect the accused to the commission of the offense alleged in the indictment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McAfee v. State · Trevino 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 passagee.g. McAfee v. State · Joseph v. State“All the law requires is that there be some non-accomplice evidence which tends to connect the accused to the commission of the offense. While individually these circumstances might not be sufficient to corroborate the accomplice testimony, taken together, rational jurors could conclude that this evidence sufficiently tended to connect appellant to the offense. (Emphasis in original)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jefferson 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.