128 Tex. Crim. 342 - Prather v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2007
7 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“Mr. Burrill on Circumstantial Evidence states the rule as follows: 'A finding of stolen property in the prisoner’s house or apartment is equally competent in evidence against him as a finding upon his person. But the house or room must be proved to be in his exclusive occupation. But if it were found lying in a house or room in which he lived jointly with others equally capable of having committed the theft, it is clear that no definite presumption of guilt could be made.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rollerson v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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