Reese v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2011
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gravely v. Commonwealth · Henderson v. Commonwealth
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““not necessary that the identity of stolen property should be invariably established by positive evidence. In many such cases identification is impracticable, and yet the circumstances may render it impossible to doubt the identity of the property, or to account for the possession of it by the accused upon any reasonable hypothesis consistent with his innocence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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