State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he explanation given at trial by an accused respecting his exclusive possession of recently stolen property is, like all other matters of fact, merely evidence for the consideration of the jury to be weighed by them with all the other evidence in the case in determining whether, notwithstanding the inference that may be drawn from-the exclusive possession of recently stolen goods, the given explanation raises a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt. Thus, the jury, being the judges of the defendant’s credibility and of the plausibility of his explanation, have the right to convict despite the absence of any direct testimony to show the falsity of the defendant’s explanation, provided they are satisfied from the totality of the evidence of the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, (citations omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Salisbury