State v. Maines’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Wilson (1985), State v. Gonzalez (1984)
96 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 Keeble v. United States · State v. Bell · State v. Eppley · State v. Foster · Lane v. Bryan
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [T]he property described in the indictment was stolen; (2) the stolen goods were found in defendant’s custody and subject to his control and disposition to the exclusion of others though not necessarily found in defendant’s hands or on his person so long as he had the power and intent to control the goods; and (3) the possession was [discovered] recently after the larceny, mere possession of stolen property being insufficient to raise a presumption of guilt.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“'to the exclusion of all persons not party to the crime.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not require that the defendant have the article in his hand, on his person or under his touch. It is sufficient that he be in such physical proximity to it that he has the power to control it to the exclusion of others and that he has the intent to control it. (Citations omitted.) One who has the requisite power to control and intent to control access to and use of a vehicle or a house has also the possession of the known contents thereof.”
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.