The empirical Karplus-type dependence of 3 J( 119 Sn, 13 C) and 3 J( 119 Sn, 1 H) couplings in organotin(IV) derivatives has been computationally validated by DFT methods both at the nonrelativistic and scalar ZORA relativistic level. A preliminary calibration of the computational protocols, by comparing experimental and calculated couplings for a set of suitable rigid molecules, revealed their high predictive power: in particular, relativistic results for 3 J( 119 Sn, 13 C) have a mean absolute error of just above 2 Hz, over a range of values up to about 70 Hz. The latter protocol has then been used to study in detail the influence of substituents and multiple paths connect-