175 Ga. App. 97 - Ramsay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 178 Ga. App. 742 - Whisnant v. State (1986), 187 Ga. App. 387 - Moore v. State (1988)
25 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 · Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · Teague v. State · Chenault v. State · Thornton 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is general law in this state that “[mjerely finding contraband on premises 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. [Cit.] Presence at the scene of a crime and nothing more will not support a conviction. [Cit.]” Blankenship v. State, 135 Ga. App. 482, 483 ( 218 SE2d 157 ). Whether the evidence of equal access is sufficient to rebut any inference of possession arising from discovery of drugs in the defendant’s bedroom, and other places of the house, is a question properly left to the jury. Gumina v. State, 166 Ga. App. 592, 593 ( 305 SE2d 37 ).”
2 later decisions 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.