503 So. 2d 608 - State v. Mercadel’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2012
18 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 445 So. 2d 1198 - State v. Wright · 425 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Trahan · Cromwell v. Commerce & Energy Bank of Lafayette · 446 So. 2d 1207 - State v. Camp
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the item was stolen; (2) the item was of value; (3) the defendant knew or should have known that the property was stolen; and (4) the defendant intentionally procured, received, or concealed the property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mere possession of stolen property does not create a presumption that the defendant knew or had good reason to believe that the property was stolen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“possession. Such a conviction may be supported by a showing of”
1 later decision 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.