38 Ala. App. 322 - Lawson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1992 · most notably 57 Ala. App. 444 - Isbell v. State (1976), 51 Ala. App. 320 - Breazeale v. State (1973)
28 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.
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.
““Possession is not limited to actual manual control upon or about the person. If under one’s power and dominion the thing is possessed. That the appellant had knowledge of the presence of the stolen groceries can reasonably be inferred from his possession and control of the truck. Certainly, it was for the jury to so determine in the absence of any evidence by the appellant tending to justify his technical possession of the groceries.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. State · Wilkins v. State“[i]t is of course well settled that in a prosecution for larceny the unexplained possession of recently stolen goods raises an inference from which the jury may infer guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. State
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.