Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 1 Ga. App. 714 - Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. Harris · 8 Ga. App. 413 - Lee v. State · 5 Ga. App. 816 - Rayfield v. State · Cannon v. State · 17 Ga. App. 820 - Williams 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Conceding it to be so [that the rule is of doubtful validity], yet it is nevertheless true that where, in a criminal case, a certain fact, such as the recent possession of stolen goods in a prosecution for larceny, is relied on, and is not directly proved, but is to be inferred from circumstances, those circumstances should be such as to exclude every reasonable inference except that the defendant was actually in the possession of the goods alleged in the indictment to have been stolen.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall
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.