Ashurst v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

cited by 29 later decisions

states following

January 2017

most recently cited

28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Ballenger v. State (1998), 472 So. 2d 694 - Boyd v. City of Montgomery (1985)

28 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 Glasser v. United States · Swain v. State of Alabama · Rideout v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co.

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“knowing that it has been stolen or having reasonable grounds to believe it has been stolen.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Bates v. State · Little v. State
“" 'In most cases there is no direct testimony of the receiver's actual belief. Proof thereof must therefore be inferred from the circumstances surrounding his receipt of the stolen property.' [W.] LaFave [ A. Scott, Criminal Law 686 (1972)]. Guilty knowledge may be inferred from all the facts and circumstances surrounding the entire transaction concerning the accused's acquisition of the stolen property. Tombrello v. State , 431 So.2d 1355 , 1357 *Page 83 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983); Tyree v. State , 407 So.2d 580 , 581 (Ala.Cr.App. 1981). ' "[G]uilty knowledge may be inferred from the fact that the receiver purchased the goods for very much less than their value." Fulton v. State , 8 Ala. App. 257 , 263 , 62 So. 959 (1913).' Tyree , 407 So.2d at 581 . '[A] very inadequate purchase price is a factor which points towards appellant's guilt.' Fillmore v. State , 647 S.W.2d 300 , 303-04 (Tex.App. 1982)."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 690 So. 2d 541 - KJ v. State · 647 So. 2d 81 - Wasp v. State
“`In considering the weight to be given evidence, "courts and juries must use common sense, common reason, and common observation as well as a common knowledge of the usual acts of men and women under given circumstances”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Tallassee Super Foods v. Hepburn · 975 So. 2d 1001 - JKLB FARMS, LLC v. Phillips

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.