Bolton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Gann v. State (1971), Vaughn v. State (1971)
26 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 Finch v. State · Bruck v. State · Durrett 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The State had made its prima facie case before the trial court when it presented evidence of exclusive possession in the appellants shortly after the theft of the tractor. The weight of this evidence was to be determined by the trier of fact and not by this Court. At the point in the trial when the state had made its prima facie case, if the appellants had evidence which would have explained their possession, it was their privilege to present the same. In the absence of such explanation, the trier of fact was entitled to believe the evidence presented by the State in making its prima facie case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“mere possession of stolen goods will not give grounds in itself for conviction for theft, but must be coupled with other evidence showing that [they] did in fact commit the theft.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fortson 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.