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← 245 Ga. App. 237 - Stevens v. State

245 Ga. App. 237 - Stevens v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
March 2014
most recently cited

25 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Glover v. State · Turner 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[E]very person concerned in the commission of a crime is a party thereto and may be charged with and convicted of commission of the crime. One is concerned in the commission of a crime where the person either directly commits, intentionally causes another to commit, intentionally aids or abets the commission of, or intentionally advises or otherwise encourages another to commit the crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Spatial proximity alone is insufficient to prove joint constructive possession of contraband.”
    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.