358 So. 2d 289 - State v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 339 So. 2d 1194 - State v. Searle · 283 So. 2d 708 - State v. Womack · State v. Montoya · 329 So. 2d 707 - State Ex Rel. Miller v. Henderson · 350 So. 2d 370 - State v. McGhee
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.
“A legal presumption relieves him in whose favor it exists from the necessity of any proof; but may none the less be destroyed by rebutting evidence; such is the presumption attaching to the regularity of judicial proceedings; that the grand jury was legally constituted; that public officers have done their duty; that a relation or subject-matter once established, continues, but not that it pre-existed; that the defendant intended the natural and probable consequence of his act; that the defendant is innocent; that the defendant is sane and responsible for his actions; that the person in the unexplained possession of property recently stolen is the thief; that evidence under the control of a party and not produced by him was not produced because it would not have aided him; that the witnesses have told the truth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Muse · Coleman v. Butler“in order to sustain the use of a presumption to prove the crime charged or an essential element thereof it is incumbent upon the prosecution to demonstrate that the presumed fact must beyond a reasonable doubt flow from the proven fact on which it is made to depend.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[f]rom the recent possession of stolen things guilt may be inferred unless there is a reasonable account given of the property as having been lawfully and not feloniously obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coleman v. Butler
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.