254 Ga. App. 52 - Warren v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person who knowingly has direct physical control over a thing at a given time is in actual possession of it. A person who, though not in actual possession, knowingly has both the power and intention at a given time to exercise dominion or control over a thing is then in constructive possession of it. The law recognizes that possession may be sole or joint. If one person alone has actual or constructive possession of a thing, possession is sole. If two or more persons share [ ] actual or constructive possession of a thing, possession is joint. 4”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 300 Ga. App. 92 - Cochran v. State · 311 Ga. App. 353 - Henry v. State

2. “The [equal access] rule, ... in the automobile context, is . . . that evidence showing that a person . . . other than the . . . driver of the automobile had equal access to contraband found in the automobile may or will, depending upon the strength of the evidence, overcome the presumption that the contraband was in the exclusive possession of the . . . driver.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. State