Felkner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 102 state decisions

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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The possessor of stolen goods soon after the theft must give a reasonable explanation of how he came into possession or face the inference that he is the thief.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rose v. State · Hickman v. State

2. “The appellants are charged ... with breaking with intent feloniously to commit larceny. This intent is best measured, as we have noted, by what was actually stolen. There was no evidence in the case before us of intent except that to be inferred from what the appellants did. We hold that they cannot be found on this record to have had an intent to steal goods of greater value than the value of the goods they actually stole, at the time they were stolen.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Timothy F.

3. “[I]n the absence of any other evidence of intent at the time of the breaking, the actual value of the goods taken would appear to be determinative of intent.... The fact that he took only $5.00 in change and not more establishes, absent any evidence to the contrary, that he did not intend at the time of the breaking out to “take or carry away the personal goods of another of the value of one hundred ($100.00) or more.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Timothy F.