Sons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 1974 · most notably Wertheimer & Goldberg v. State (1929), Mays v. State (1924)
34 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 Hogue v. State · Duckworth v. State · Thomas v. State · Boykin v. State
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have held in repeated decisions that unexplained possession of property 'recently stolen constitutes evidence legally sufficient to warrant a conviction of larceny or of the crime of knowingly receiving stolen property; but that an instruction that such evidence is sufficient to sustain a conviction amounts to an instruction on the weight of the evidence and is, for that-reason, an invasion of the province of the jury.” To the same effect see Mitchell v. State, 125 Ark. 260 , and cases cited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spivey 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.