355 So. 2d 755 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1. That the goods in question had been feloniously taken and carried away by someone; 2. That the defendant bought, received, concealed or aided in concealing the goods, knowing that they were stolen; and 3. That the defendant bought, received, concealed or aided in concealing the goods without the intent to restore them to the owner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Speed v. State

2. “While mere speculation, conjecture or surmise will not authorize a conviction, the jury is under a duty to draw whatever permissible inferences it may from circumstantial evidence and to base its verdict on whatever permissible inference it chooses to draw.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 391 So. 2d 666 - Dolvin v. State

3. “All of these necessary ingredients (to prove a prima facie case of receiving stolen property) may be, and most of them usually are, shown by circumstances from which the jury, using their everyday common sense and observation, must draw their conclusions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 433 So. 2d 959 - Cork v. State