35 Ala. App. 191 - McFarling v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 1984 · most notably 52 Ala. App. 260 - Barnett v. State (1974), 39 Ala. App. 29 - Beddow v. State (1956)
26 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 32 Ala. App. 413 - Dickey v. State · Boyd v. State · Hutchens v. State · Cofield v. State · 23 Ala. App. 269 - Cofield 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a prosecution for receiving stolen property the possession of the property places the burden on the defendant to explain it, and his guilt may be inferred from said possession. Cofield v. State, 23 Ala.App. 269 , 124 So. 250 , certiorari denied 220 Ala. 110 , 124 So. 251 ; Boyd v. State, 150 Ala. 101 , 43 So. 204 . The reasonableness of the possessor’s explanation concerning his possession of such goods is for the jury. Dickey v. State, 32 Ala.App. 413 , 26 So.2d 532 .” McFarling v. State, 35 Ala.App. 191 , 45 So.2d 322, 323 , certiorari denied 253 Ala. 501 , 45 So.2d 324 .”
1 later decision 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.