212 Ga. App. 787 - Reid v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Livingston v. State (1997), Mitchell v. State (1997)
42 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 · Teague v. State · Harris v. State · 207 Ga. App. 131 - Whipple v. State · 166 Ga. App. 456 - Shirley 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 42 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he State had the burden of proving guilt. In a case such as this one, involving wholly circumstantial evidence, the law demands that the proved facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.”
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.