State v. Trowbridge’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2010
9 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Cupp v. Naughten · Leary v. United States · Turner v. United States · Tot v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he unsatisfactorily explained possession of recently stolen property is a circumstance tending to infer knowledge of the unlawful character of the property, and that circumstance taken together with a necessary quantum of other incriminating evidence, may be used by the jury to reach a verdict, in light of their collective common experience, and the circumstances surrounding the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Owens · State v. Peterman“"However, you are never required to make this inference. It is the exclusive province of the jury to determine whether the facts and circumstances shown by the evidence in this case warrant any inference which the law permits the jury to draw from the possession of recently stolen property." 412 U.S. at 840 n. 3, 93 S.Ct. at 2360 n. 3.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Owens · State v. Peterman“Scienter is necessary for conviction of receiving stolen property mere possession of recently stolen property cannot give rise to a legal presumption of 'guilty' knowledge or belief .. ..”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fortson v. State · State v. Slawson
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.