41 Ala. App. 351 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 1987 · most notably 49 Ala. App. 726 - Bills v. State (1973), Fletcher v. State (1963)
55 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 Blakeney v. State · 26 Ala. App. 607 - Moore v. State · 36 Ala. App. 371 - Coates v. State · 38 Ala. App. 490 - Arthur v. State · Phelps 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To establish the offense of buying or concealing stolen property it must appear that the property was stolen; that accused bought, received or concealed it knowing that it had been stolen; and that she had no intention of returning it to the owner. Moore v. State, 26 Ala. App. 607 , 164 So. 761 ; Trail v. State, 39 Ala.App. 467 , 103 So.2d 833 . “The corpus delicti may be proven by circumstantial evidence as well as by direct proof. Coates v. State, 36 Ala.App. 371 , 56 So.2d 383 ; Wright v. State, 17 Ala.App. 621 , 88 So. 185 . “To meet the burden of proving that the property was stolen, it is necessary only that the state offer sufficient legal evidence to show a severance of the possession of the owner and an actual possession of the wrongdoer. It is immaterial how short the distance moved, or the length of time he exercised dominion over it. It may constitute larceny if there was a severance of the possession of the owner and an actual possession and removal by the wrongdoer. Phelps v. State, 6 Ala.App. 58 , 60 So. 537 ; Molton v. State, 105 Ala. 18 , 16 So. 795 ; Blakeney v. State, 244 Ala. 262 , 13 So.2d 430 ; Arthur v. State, 38 Ala.App. 490 , 93 So.2d 793 .””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.