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← 249 Ga. 720 - Dalton v. State

Dalton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
March 1993
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Illinois v. Vitale · De Palma v. State · Haynes v. State · 126 Ga. App. 38 - Lee v. State · 130 Ga. App. 708 - Neal 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “often so shade into one another that it is difficult to say where one ends and the other begins.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “it is unlawful for any person to possess or have under his control any controlled substance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The difference between actual and constructive possession”
    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.