191 Ga. App. 623 - Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably 190 W. Va. 445 - Wood v. Wood (1993), 212 Ga. App. 787 - Reid v. State (1994)
30 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · 187 Ga. App. 765 - Pupo v. State · 166 Ga. App. 459 - Anderson v. State · 179 Ga. App. 780 - Wilson v. State · 181 Ga. App. 628 - Hadden 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A person who, though not in actual possession, knowingly has both the power and intention at a given time to exercise dominion or control over a thing is then in constructive possession of it.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“had access to the contraband and thus the power to exercise control over it”
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.