State v. Eppers’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1993
12 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 Farrin v. State Industrial Accident Commission · State v. Pomeroy · State v. Casey · State v. Weston · State v. Minnick
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Subject to the limitations hereinafter considered, the rule may be stated broadly that proof of the possession by accused of the property described in the indictment recently after the larceny raises the presumption that he was the thief. The rule itself indicates the condition under which it operates, that is, to raise the presumption of guilt there must be proof: (1)That the property described in the indictment was stolen, the mere fact of finding one man’s property in another man’s possession raising no presumption that the latter stole it. (2) That the property shown to have been possessed by accused was the stolen property. (3) That the possession was recently after the larceny.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McKenzie
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.