404 So. 2d 776 - Walton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2019
9 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 State v. Young · 370 So. 2d 860 - Griffin 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the crime of theft may be proved by circumstantial evidence, such evidence must be of sufficient probative force to support a legal inference of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The proof must not only be consistent with guilt, but also inconsistent with a reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. A.L. v. State · A.L. v. State“the rule that possession of recently stolen goods carries with it the inference that the possessor is the guilty taker.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. A.L. v. State · A.L. 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.