Byrd v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Allen v. State (1975), Williamson v. State (1981)
25 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 Loyd v. State · 119 Ga. App. 593 - Gaskin 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, Ladies & Gentlemen of the Jury, if you find that the offense alleged in the indictment was committed by someone, and that very soon thereafter, that the whole or any part of it, of the goods so taken at the time of the offense was committed, if any offense was committed, was found in the recent possession of the Defendant, such possession, if not satisfactorily explained, consistent with his innocence, raise[s] the presumption of guilt and it would authorize you to identify the Defendant as the guilty party and to convict him of the crime as charged. The presumption of guilt, however, is one of evidence and not of law, and may be rebutted by proof satisfactory to the Jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Byrd v. Hopper
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.