State v. Worthen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “People are not accustomed, in the nighttime, to enter the homes of others . . . with innocent purposes. The usual object is theft, and this is the inference ordinarily to be drawn . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Waters
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-07-28· cited 105×
• United States v. Parker
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1955-08-19· cited 75×
• State v. Allnutt
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1968-02-06· cited 62×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-19· cited 38×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1921-03-08· cited 37×
• Moore v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 36×
• Thames v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1954-06-14· cited 32×
• United States v. Thomas Melton, Jr.
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-01-11· cited 20×
• State v. Cook
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1920-03-12· cited 19×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-11-08· cited 16×
• Waters v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-07-15· cited 14×
• State v. Wills
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1966-03-30· cited 14×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1902-06-15· cited 13×
• Dixon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-10-19· cited 13×
• State v. Fox
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1968-06-11· cited 9×
• Cortez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-12-02· cited 9×
• Mouratis v. Nagle
  Ninth Circuit· 1928-03-12· cited 5×
• State v. Goff
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-01-19· cited 4×
• Rochelle Deangelo Brown v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-02-22
• State of Iowa v. Jeffrey Lee Stendrup
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2022-12-22

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. . McBryde
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 1887-02-05· cited 44×
• People v. Soto
  California Supreme Court· 1879-07-01· cited 34×
• Steadman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1888-12-05· cited 34×
• Wright v. Gilbert
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1879-03-25· cited 34×
• State v. Mecum
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1895-10-04· cited 20×
• Harvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1890-10-11· cited 16×
• Harvick v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1887-05-15· cited 13×
• Lanier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1886-04-20· cited 9×
• Coleman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1888-10-27· cited 4×