State v. . Moses’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 1985
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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““When each circumstance going to make up the evidence relied upon depends upon the truth of the preceding circumstance, circumstantial evidence may be likened unto a chain, which is no stronger than its weakest link; but, as in this case, when there is an accumulation of circumstances which do not depend upon each other, circumstantial evidence is more aptly likened to the bundle of twigs in the fable, or to several strands twisted into a rope, becoming, when united, of much strength. S. v. Shines, 125 N.C., 730 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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