167 Ga. App. 396 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Teague v. State (1984), 171 Ga. App. 242 - Graham v. State (1984)
27 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Momon v. State · Alderman v. State · 163 Ga. App. 889 - Miller v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This argument is without merit, for we have held that a person who knowingly has direct physical control over a thing at a given time is in actual possession of it. [Cit.] ... Although [appellant] testified [he] knew nothing about the [cocaine], [his] credibility was a question for the jury. [Cit.] ... [Moreover], we do not believe the legislature intended the phrase `actual possession' ... to mean that a person would be holding it in his hand or have it physically on his person”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.