Gilley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Goodpaster v. State (1980), Finch v. State (1967)
44 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 McKee v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York · Brown v. State · McAdams v. State · Marshall v. State · Pease 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[tlhe rule is that unexplained, exelusive possession of recently stolen property constitutes a cireumstance from which a court or jury may draw an inference of guilt”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . The circumstance was sufficient to permit the trial court to draw an inference of guilt and convict the appellants. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Of course an affidavit must be filed in order to invoke the jurisdiction of the court, and was filed in this case', wherein this case differs from Pease v. State (1921), 74 Ind. App. 572 , 129 N. E. 337 , upon which appellants here lay great stress, and wherein it is stated in the body of the opinion no affidavit was filed. It was merely an unverified complaint.” 227 Ind. at 708 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greentree 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.