Strode v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has long been held that mere possession of stolen goods shortly after a theft has occurred is not sufficient circumstantial evidence to sustain a conviction for knowingly receiving or possessing stolen property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Choate v. State

2. “recently stolen property is recovered from a place to which others present had equal access, such evidence alone is not sufficient to sustain a theft conviction.”

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