Underwood v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably McMillan v. Aiken (1920), Bryant v. State (1897)
26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The recent, actual, unexplained possession of stolen goods, is a fact from which the jury may infer the complicity of the defendant in the larceny. Whether it is sufficient evidence of guilt, is a question for their determination. There may be cases in which it would stand alone, unconnected with any other criminating fact, and from it the jury would not probably infer guilt. Whether the inference is just and reasonable — whether the fact satisfies the minds of the jury as reasonable men, beyond all reasonable doubt, of the guilt of the accused — the court can not determine.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When the ownership is "alleged, a variance between the allegation and the proof entitles the accused to an acquittal, though it will not bar a new indictment describing or averring the ownership properly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Shoults
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.