French v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Cotten v. Fooks (2001), Abbott v. State (1974)
23 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 Stone v. State · Mays v. State · Thiel v. Dove · Beaumont v. Faubus · Petty 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession by any person of a quantity of any controlled substance listed in this subsection in excess of the quantity limit set out herein, shall create a rebuttable presumption that such person possesses such controlled substance with intent to deliver in violation of Section 1(a) and (b) [this section] of this article. Provided, how ever, the presumption provided for herein may be overcome by the submission of evidence sufficient to create a reasonable doubt that the person charged possessed a controlled substance with intent to deliver in violation of Section 1(a) and (b) of this Article. Heroin — 100 milligrams * * * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. Lockhart“[W]e reject appellee’s argument based upon a statement in Jones v. City of Forrest City, 239 Ark. 211 , 388 S. W.2d 386 (and cases cited therein), that an instruction in the language of a statute applicable to the facts of a case is always proper. This comprehensive language applied literally would permit the legislature to override Art. 7, Sec. 23 of the Constitution, but we have held in Reno, decided subsequently to Jones, that this cannot be. 256 Ark. at 300 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ethridge v. State“We did hold, however, that the words “rebuttable presumption” as used in the statute referred, rather than to a conclusive presumption, to a justifiable inference, i. e., an inference which a trier of fact may draw if it thinks the evidence requires it, but which may be overcome by submission of evidence creating a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. Lockhart
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.