Lefthand v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
4
states following
March 1977
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McCluskey v. State · Bell v. State · Filson v. the Territory of Oklahoma · Byington v. State · Stanford 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The mere possession of property recently stolen is not sufficient to convict the possessor of Larceny or Burglary of it, but when the fact is supplemented with other facts inconsistent with the ideas that the possession is honest, it then becomes a question of fact for the jury to pass upon the guilt or innocence of the defendant.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Edgmon v. State · Jones 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.