249 So. 2d 414 - Curry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 535 So. 2d 1371 - Vickery v. State (1988), 478 So. 2d 266 - Keys v. State (1985)
125 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 Chambers v. Maroney · Fuqua v. State · Dunning v. State · 243 So. 2d 396 - Jackson v. State · 204 So. 2d 165 - Boyd 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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here must be sufficient facts to warrant a finding that defendant was aware of the presence and character of the particular substance and was intentionally and consciously in possession of it. It need not be actual physical possession. Constructive possession may be shown by establishing that the drug involved was subject to his dominion or control. Proximity is usually an essential element, but by itself is not adequate in the absence of other incriminating circumstances.”
79 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Roach v. State · Lewis v. State“The evidence was sufficient to support the jury's finding that Curry was in possession of the marijuana.”
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.