Clapp v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 89 state decisions

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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The degree of evidence which shall be deemed sufficient to corroborate the testimony of the accomplice is for the determination of the jury. The law is complied with if there is some other evidence fairly tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime, so that his conviction will not rest entirely upon the evidence of the accomplice.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stanley v. State · Yelton v. State

2. ““The rule is that, to sufficiently corroborate the testimony of the accomplice, there should be some fact testified to, entirely independent of the accomplice’s evidence, which, taken by itself, leads to the inference, not only that a crime has been committed, but also that the- defendant is implicated in it” (Clapp v. State, 94 Tenn. 186, 195 , 30 S.W. 214, 216 ). Robison v. State, 84 Tenn. 146, 148 ; Stanley v. State, 189 Tenn. 110, 115 , 222 S.W.2d 384 ; Sherrill v. State, 204 Tenn. 427, 433 , 321 S.W.2d 811 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boulton v. State