Shropshire v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1972
6 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.
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.
““That goods found in a room occupied by two, or three, or more persons, is not conclusive evidence that they were in the possession» of any one of them is, we think, a correct legal principle. It would certainly be a very stringent rule to put upon parties, to say that the mere fact that goods were found in a room occupied by several, was conclusive evidence that they were in the possession of any particular one of the occupants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zoff
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.