People v. . Weldon’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 1964 · most notably Wertheimer & Goldberg v. State (1929), People v. Farson (1927)
9 federal appellate · 45 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 People v. . West · Fleming v. . the People · Knickerbocker v. . the People · Phelps v. . People · The People v. . Willett
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no question but that the recent possession of stolen property by a person raises a presumption of guilt, which may be considered by the jury, and, in the absence of explanation by such person, authorizes it to infer a criminal connection with its acquisition. This presumption applies as well to a person charged with unlawfully receiving as to one charged with its original taking. If it raises a presumption of guilt as to the more serious crime, much more should it be evidence of the guilt implied in the lesser offense.””
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.