44 Ala. App. 534 - Odom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1982
22 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 Orr v. State · Coats v. State · Underwood 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The recent, actual, unexplained possession of stolen goods, is a fact from which the jury may infer the complicity of the defendant in the larceny. Whether it is sufficient evidence of guilt, is a question for their determination. There may be cases in which it would stand alone, unconnected with any-other criminating fact, and from it the jury would not probably infer guilt. Whether the inference is just and reasonable — whether the fact satisfies the minds of the jury as reasonable men, beyond all reasonable doubt, of the guilt of the accused — the court can not determine.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. State““[Cjare has not been taken in all the cases to differentiate a presumption of guilt arising from that situation and an inference which the jury is justified in drawing on account of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham 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.