Farzley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Morissette v. United States (1952), 360 So. 2d 728 - Davidson v. State (1978)
39 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 Kirby v. United States · Metropolitan Ry Co v. Church Brightwood Ry Co · People v. . Jaffe · State v. Alderman · Griggs 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While, as that court states, there is a difference between `knowing that it has been stolen,' and `having reasonable grounds for believing that it has been stolen,' it is now of the opinion that knowledge is necessary to a conviction, but that knowledge may be established by showing `reasonable grounds for believing.' This is a statutory offense changing the common law. Its elements may be, and are defined by the statute, and, when so, are conclusive, so long as constitutional rights are not violated. The statute in our opinion is plainly expressed, and means that if `reasonable grounds for believing' exist, that element is established, although defendant may have had no `knowledge,' and that `reasonable grounds for believing' are not inserted in the statute as a means of proving knowledge, but that it is a substitute for knowledge, in the alternative. Under the statute now, if the jury believes beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of facts which were known to defendant and which are sufficient in the opinion of the jury to show the existence of `reasonable grounds for believing' that the goods were stolen, and they were in fact stolen, no further inquiry in that respect need be pursued."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The detectives were not guilty of larceny or burglary, because they had no criminal intent. There can be no stealing (larceny) unless there is a felonious taking and carrying away; that is, an intent to deprive the owner of the value of his property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Walls
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.