238 So. 2d 75 - State v. Eckroth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably State v. Vance (1979), 351 So. 2d 957 - Earnest v. State (1977)
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 179 So. 2d 873 - Spataro v. State · 38 Ala. App. 573 - Schenher v. State · Reynolds v. State · Peachie v. State · Redmond v. Self
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.
“a conscious and substantial possession by the accused, as distinguished from a mere involuntary or superficial possession.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hogue · Campbell v. State“The possession and control of defendant Eckroth in the instant case meets the Reynolds test. In fact, the uncontradicted evidence establishes actual, physical possession and control of the drug.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hogue“from another's pipe filled with illegal marijuana does not possess the same within the statutory meaning because such possession evinces a mere”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arant v. State
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.