Crowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably McClain v. State (1993), Pettus v. S Tate (1946)
31 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 Harris v. State · Sanford v. State · Manning v. State · Sartorious v. State · Wood 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“explanation of his possession of such property in order to be relieved of any inference of guilt that may be drawn against him, whether he is being tried for the crime of burglary, larceny, or receiving recently stolen property knowing it to have been stolen. It is said in 32 Am.Jur. 1056, that:”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“STATE'S INSTRUCTION NO. 1 The Court instructs the jury for the State that possession of recently stolen property is presumptive proof of guilt of larceny of the property, and if the jury believe from the evidence in this cause beyond a reasonable doubt and to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis, that the 1963 Chevrolet automobile testified to have been stolen, was at any time soon after its being stolen in the possession of the defendant, then this possession is presumptive proof of defendants guilt of larceny, and the burden of explaining or accounting for such possession is cast upon the defendant, and when satisfactory explanation is not given, the jury would be warranted in finding him guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the explanation * * * is generally that given by the accused, if any, when he is first under a duty to speak after such recently stolen property is discovered in his possession, and giving or failing to give a reasonable explanation in that regard is not to be determined by the testimony offered by the accused upon the trial, when there has been a previous opportunity afforded him to give an account of such possession consistent with innocence, and he has attempted to explain or refused to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palmer v. State · Ard 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.