State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2021
13 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 Leary v. United States · Tot v. United States · Barnes v. United States · State v. DiRienzo · Cosby v. Jones
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[plossession of property recently stolen, when no satisfactory explanation of such possession is made, shall be deemed prima facie evidence that the person in possession stole the property”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carlson · State v. Crowley“[A] jury instruction using the language of [Utah Code section] 76-6-402(1) is unconstitutional because it directly relates to the issue of guilt and relieves the State of its burden of proof.... Thus, the statutory language should not be used in any form in instructing juries in criminal cases, and we expressly disavow the language and holdings of our earlier cases to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crowley“The mere fact that a person was in conscious possession of recently stolen property is not sufficient to justify a conviction of theft. There must be proof of other circumstances tending of themselves to establish guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fortson v. State
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.