71 Wash. 2d 303 - State v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably United States v. Brooks (2002), 74 Wash. 2d 185 - State v. Cadena (1968)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Atwood v. State · 35 Ill. App. 2d 79 - In Re Petition for Removal of Rice · 25 Wash. 2d 246 - State v. Portee · State v. Dodd · 146 Tex. Crim. 586 - Vaughn 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... When a person is found in possession of recently stolen property, slight corroborative evidence of other inculpatory circumstances tending to show his guilt will support a conviction. When the fact of possession ... is supplemented by the giving of a false or improbable explanation of it, or a failure to explain when a larceny is charged, ... or the giving of a fictitious name, a case is made for the jury."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““Mere possession of stolen goods, unaccompanied by other evidence of guilt, is not to be regarded as prima facie evidence of burglary. But the rule is otherwise when there is indicatory evidence on collateral points(Italics supplied in Portee.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n order to sustain a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the circumstances proved by the state must not only be consistent with each other and consistent with the hypothesis that the accused is guilty, but also must be inconsistent with any hypothesis or theory which would establish, or tend to establish, his innocence.”
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.