State v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably State v. Brown (1985), State v. Wilson (1985)
81 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 Dunaway v. New York · Beal v. Franklin · State v. Cutler · Spokane County v. United States · State v. Monk
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he inference derived from recent possession `is to be considered by the jury merely as an evidentiary fact along with other evidence in the case, in determining whether the State has carried the burden of satisfying the jury beyond a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“affords presumptive evidence that the person in possession is himself the thief,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a permissible inference that the possessor is the thief”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.