King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2022
14 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 Downs v. State · Cutbirth v. State · State v. Costin · Newell v. State · Orcutt 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[tlhe most significant 'and material evidence of defendant's guilt is his possession of the stolen property. Possession is a strong cireumstance tending to show guilt and only slight corroborative evidence of other inculpatory circumstances is required”
4 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.