Martin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably Parsons v. State (1948), Kasle v. United States (1916)
1 federal appellate · 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 Malachi v. State · Blakey's Heirs v. Blakey's · People v. . Weldon · Stoudenmeier v. Williamson · Goldstein v. . People of the State of N.Y.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there was evidence tending to connect the defendant with the larceny, the recent, unexplained possession of the goods, it may be, would raise the presumption that he had stolen them, rather than that he had received them knowing them .to have been stolen. But where the evidence, though proving the larceny, does not connect him with its commission, tending to fix the guilt of it upon another, and he has the recent possession of the goods, if ho makes no- reasonable explanation of the possession, the same- presumption should be applied which would be applied if the possession had remained with the first taker. There is no unfairness in the presumption; it is reasonable. The receiver can as readily explain how and from whom he acquired possession as could the first taker; the explanation which would be reasonable, removing the presumption in the one case, would have the same effect in the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.