48 Ala. App. 471 - Eason v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
October 1979
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Washington v. United States · Commonwealth v. Ronchetti · Lester v. State · 40 Ala. App. 689 - Behel v. State · Ex Parte Seyfried
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The applicable elements of second degree burglary are: (1) breaking, (2) entering, (3) with intent to steal or to commit a felony. The evidence, without contradiction, shows the first two ingredients. Behel v. State , 40 Ala. App. 689 , 122 So.2d 537 . From Behel , this Court per Cates, J., stated: `The jury may reasonably infer intent to steal from the mere presence of the accused in the shop in circumstances showing a breaking and entering in the night. . . .'" [Cases cited]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hare v. State · Hughley v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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