State v. Dancyger’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably State v. Lucas (1959), State v. DiRienzo (1969)
9 federal appellate · 73 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Dunn v. United States · State v. Corby · State v. Rogers · People v. Lang · State v. Costa
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that the unexplained and exclusive possession of stolen property shortly after the theft justifies an inference that the possessor is the thief. The basis for such an inference is the improbability that the accused could have acquired the stolen property so soon after the theft unless he was the thief. 2 [Id, at 85,148 A.2d 155 (citations omitted) (emphasis added).]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“more certain, satisfying and persuasive than direct evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * N.J.S. 2 A :139-1 provides that possession of stolen property within one year of the theft, if unaccounted for, shall be deemed sufficient evidence to justify a conviction of receiving stolen goods. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.