Kessler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1987 · most notably Tackett v. State (1969), Whitwell v. State (1975)
28 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 Wright v. State · Roach 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * We in this State have adopted the objective test rule as to the defendant’s knowing or having knowledge of the theft. Wright v. State, 13 Tenn. 154 . “ ‘That is, the existence of guilty knowledge is to be regarded as established when the circumstances surrounding the receipt of the property were such as would charge a reasonable man with notice or knowledge or would put a reasonable man upon inquiry which if pursued would disclose that conclusion.’ Wharton’s Criminal Law & Procedure, Anderson, Vol. 2, page 281, § 568.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGee v. State · Tackett 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.