State v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1966
4 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
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In State v. Graves, 72 N. C. 485 , Pearson, C. J., says that the presumption does not arise except when ‘the fact of guilt must be self-evident from the bare fact of stolen goods, and Hoke, J., in State v. Anderson, 162 N. C. 571 ( 77 S. E. 238 ), that it is only when he could not reasonably have got possession unless he had stolen them himself.’ The principle is usually applied to possession which involves custody about the person, but it is not necessarily so limited. ‘It may be of things elsewhere deposited, but under the control of a party. It may be in a storeroom or barn when the party has the key. In short, it may be in any place where it is manifest it must have been put by the act of the party or his undoubted concurrence’: State v. Johnson, 60 N. C. 237 ( 86 Am. Dec. 434 ).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moss
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.