Fletcher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably Head v. State (1982), Choctaw v. State (1979)
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 Howard v. State · Wertheimer & Goldberg v. State · United States v. Werner · Dixon v. State · Beeler 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.
““The question of- whether the accused had knowledge or reason to infer’ that the goods were stolen is a matter for the judge or jury to determine in light of all the facts and circumstances surrounding the receipt or purchase. 76 C. J. S. Receiving Stolen Goods §20, p. 50. This court has repeatedly held that knowledge on the part of the accused that the property received was stolen may be proved or inferred from the circumstances....””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smeltzer v. State““Further, the record reveals that no objection was made prior to the objectionable testimony, and no motion to strike was made. Therefore, no error is reserved as to the admission of the testimony. Beeler v. State (1951), 230 Ind. 444 , 104 N. E. 2d 744 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spright 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.