207 Ga. App. 131 - Whipple v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 212 Ga. App. 787 - Reid v. State (1994), 217 Ga. App. 402 - Whitfield v. State (1995)
41 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 · Harris v. State · 202 Ga. App. 311 - Hurston v. State · 187 Ga. App. 691 - In the Interest of C. A. A. · 200 Ga. App. 231 - Murrell 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a] finding of constructive possession must be based upon some connection between the defendant and the contraband other than spatial proximity. Evidence of mere presence at the scene of the crime, and nothing more to show participation of a defendant in the illegal act, is insufficient to support a conviction.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As a matter of law, that presence is not enough to support a finding of criminal possession of the contraband beyond a reasonable doubt, to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e recognize that the factfinder is usually in the best position to determine questions of reasonableness when evidence of guilt is circumstantial. [Cits.]”
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.