45 Ala. App. 97 - Hale v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably 363 So. 2d 1020 - Thomas v. State (1978), 47 Ala. App. 347 - Payton v. State (1971)
30 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 United States v. Sherman · Orr v. State · Milam v. State · Coats v. State · Farmers' & Merchants' State Bank of Ranger v. Tullos
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, gentlemen, it is the law of this State that the recent possession of stolen property, that is, possession of stolen property shortly after it was stolen, imposes on the possessor the onus, or burden, of making an explanation of such possession; and, if he fails to make a reasonable explanation such failure would raise a presumption of guilt which would support a conviction.””
2 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.