Dodson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2017
9 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 Scarver v. State · Autman 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think the evidence tended to slimy that [the removal of the posts] was the result of one design, or constituted one continuing transaction, and was sufficient to justify the verdict of the jury in finding the appellant guilty of grand larceny. It is true the direct evidence for the state is silent on this question; there is only whatever inference of fact which may be reasonably drawn therefrom. But the evidence of the defendant himself, as witness in his own behalf, supplied the necessary direct proof that the cutting and removal of this timber was one continuing transaction. For the appellant admitted as much when he stated that he had ... cut and removed and sold these posts and appropriated the proceeds to his own use for the purpose of reimbursing himself for the improvements made by him on the plantation [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.