360 So. 2d 728 - Davidson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 405 So. 2d 41 - Miller v. State (1981), 401 So. 2d 213 - Brown v. State (1981)
38 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 McPherson v. State · Williams v. State · Southland Broadcasting Co. v. Todd · 29 Ala. App. 264 - Gallman v. State · Farzley 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since a thief may not receive stolen property from himself, the appellant cannot be convicted of receiving stolen property where the evidence shows that (he) actually stole the property.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court has a mandatory duty of instructing the jury orally as to the different and distinguishing elements of the offense charged.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"For this reason, evidence tending to prove that the accused came into possession of the property described in the indictment solely through the burglarization of a house is insufficient to authorize a conviction of receiving stolen goods. Gallman v. State, 29 Ala.App. 264 , 195 So. 768 (1940). "In the offense of receiving stolen goods, the accused is guilty of receiving goods which had been taken and carried away by another. The offense of larceny is perfected before that of receiving stolen goods can be perpetrated. Foster v. State, 39 Ala. 229, 234 (1864). "Thus Alabama law supports the general principle on this subject as stated in 136 A.L.R. 1087 at 1088, Annotation: May participant in larceny or theft be convicted of offenses of receiving or concealing the stolen property.”
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.