Reynolds v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 1992 · most notably Ex Parte Cannon (1976), Thomas v. State (1988)
60 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 American Plant Food Corporation v. State · Ex Parte Cannon · Baldwin v. State · Gonzales v. State · Moore v. State
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a person (2) with intent to deprive the owner of property (3) exercises control over the property, other than real property (4) which is stolen property (5) obtained by another (6) knowing it was stolen.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. State · Ex Parte Cannon“(a) A person commits an offense if he unlawfully appropriates property with intent to deprive the owner of property. (b) Appropriation of property is unlawful if: (1) it is without the owner’s effective consent; or (2) the property is stolen and the actor appropriates the property knowing it was stolen by another.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Payne · Ex Parte Cannon“(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to deprive the owner of property: (1) he obtains the property unlawfully; or (2) he exercises control over the property, other than real property, unlawfully- (b) Obtaining or exercising control over property is unlawful if: (1) the actor obtains or exercises control over the property without the owner’s effective consent; or (2) the property is stolen and the actor obtains it from another or exercises control over the property obtained by another knowing it was stolen.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Luna · Ex Parte Porter
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.