3 Tenn. Crim. App. 256 - Pruitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably State v. Vann (1998), State v. Davidson (2003)
56 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 Carroll v. State · Liakas v. State · Marable v. State · Smith v. State · 11 Smith & H. 530 - Woodruff 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘A presumption and an inference are not the same thing. A presumption being a deduction which the law requires a trier to make; an inference is a deduction which the trier may or may not make according to his own conclusions. A presumption is mandatory; an inference is permissible. A presumption is compulsory and cannot be disregarded by the jury. While the possession of recently stolen goods gives rise to an inference that the possessor has stolen the goods, it is not ordinarily proof or prima facie evidence of burglary. There should be some evidence of guilty conduct besides the bare possession of the stolen property before the presumption of burglary is superad-ded to that of the larceny. However, such possession is evidence which may be considered with all the other circumstances of the case as bearing on the question whether the defendant committed the burglary, and there is authority that if the possession is unexplained it may support the conclusion of guilt of burglary. Moreover, when goods have been feloni-ously taken by means of burglary, and they are immediately or soon after found in the actual and exclusive possession of a person who gives a false account, or refuses to give any account, of the manner in which the goods came into his possession, proof of such possession and guilty conduct may sustain an inference not only that he stole the goods, but that he made use of the means by which access to them was obtained When such proof has been made, the defendant ha”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law is firmly established in this State that to warrant a criminal conviction upon circumstantial evidence alone, the evidence must be not only consistent with the guilt of the accused but it must also be inconsistent with his innocence and must exclude every other reasonable theory or hypothesis except that of guilt, and it must establish such a certainty of guilt of the accused as to convince the mind beyond a reasonable doubt that he is the one who committed the crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson · State v. Tharpe““But the rule has its well-known exceptions. Such evidence is admissible when it is relevant to prove some other material issue on trial; for instance, when it tends to establish (1) motive; (2) intent; (3) absence of mistake or accident; (4) a common scheme or plan for commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to establish the other; and (5) the identity of the defendant on trial. Pruitt v. State [3 Tenn.Cr.App. 256], 460 S.W.2d 385 , and authorities therein cited.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ellison v. State · White 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.