State v. Bankert’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Rojo (1998), State v. Apodaca (1994)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Griffin v. United States · Michigan v. Ohio · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. American Train Dispatchers Ass'n · In re Disbarment of McManus
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is in possession of heroin when he knows it is on his person or in his presence, and he exercises control over it. Even if the substance is not in his physical presence, he is in possession if he knows where it is, and he exercises control over it. Two or more people can have possession of a substance at the same time. A person’s presence in the vicinity of the substance or his knowledge of the existence or the location of the substance, is not, by itself, possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morales
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.