212 Mich. App. 607 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A defendant may have constructive possession of a firearm if its location is known to the defendant and if it is reasonably accessible to him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Thompson

2. “Possession [of a firearm] may be actual or constructive and may be proved by circumstantial evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Houston v. Commonwealth