5 Ariz. App. 112 - State v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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

1. ““The mere possession of alleged stolen property, however, soon after the taking, unexplained by the person having possession, is not sufficient to justify conviction. It is, however, a circumstance to be considered in connection with other evidence in determining the question of innocence or guilt. If you should find from the evidence that a burglary was committed on the premises involved in this case, and that thereafter the Defendant was found in possession or claimed to be the owner of the property stolen from the burglarized premises, such a fact would be a circumstance only in showing possible guilt, although not sufficient standing alone and unsupported by other evidence, to warrant your finding him guilty of burglary. In addition to proof of possession of such property, there must be proof of corroborating circumstances tending of themselves to establish guilt of burglary. Such corroborating circumstances may consist of the acts, conduct, falsehoods, if any, or other declarations, if any, of the Defendant and any other proved circumstance tending to show the guilt of the accused.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gortarez