Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2015
17 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 Wright v. West · Carr v. State · Cosby v. Jones · 566 So. 2d 1201 - Murphy v. State · West v. Wright
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The temporal proximity of the possession to the crime to be inferred; 2. The number or percentage of the fruits of the crime possessed; 3. The nature of the possession in terms of whether there is an attempt at concealment or any other evidence of guilty knowledge; 4. Whether an explanation is given and whether that explanation is plausible or demonstrably false.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the facts and inferences [in the case sub judice ] so considered point[] in favor of [Porter] with sufficient force that reasonable men could not have found beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ourt has consistently held that unexplained possession of recently stolen property is prima facie, although no means conclusive, evidence of burglary.”
2 later decisions 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.