169 Ga. App. 172 - Fears v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 187 Ga. App. 440 - Lombardo v. State (1988), 219 Ga. App. 792 - Larochelle v. State (1996)
34 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 State v. Estevez · State v. Johnson · 128 Ga. App. 250 - Elrod v. State · Clemson v. State · 135 Ga. App. 482 - Blankenship 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a)s to automobiles, the rule does not apply where there is evidence in the case that the defendant has not been in possession of the vehicle for a period of time prior to the discovery of the contraband or that others have had access to it. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“merely finding contraband in a car occupied by defendant is not sufficient to support a conviction if it affirmatively appears from the evidence that persons other than the defendant had equal opportunity to commit the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington 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.