State v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Stapleton (1975), State v. Arnold (1978)
118 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. Castaldi · State v. Bayless · State v. Watson · State v. Ramsey · State v. Oliver
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The possession of recently stolen property which will support an inference of guilt may be a joint possession of the accused and others and such possession need not be separated from all possession by others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Stolen property found in an automobile in which the defendant is a passenger near the scene of a burglary is admissible against the defendant at his trial for burglary without showing that the defendant had any interest in or right to possession of the automobile.’ ” (citing State v. Cobb, 444 S.W.2d 408, 414 [Mo. banc 1969]).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Porter“Watson may unduly constrict the rule as to what constitutes possession of stolen property sufficient to permit a factual inference of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schleicher
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.