Lockwood v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Agan v. Vaughn (1997), 189 Ga. App. 366 - Coleman v. State (1988)
2 federal appellate · 67 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 126 Ga. App. 38 - Lee v. State · 172 Ga. App. 663 - Allen v. State · Dalton v. State · 184 Ga. App. 262 - Lockwood 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[is when a] person ... knowingly has direct physical control over a thing at a given time ...”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`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.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A] finding of constructive possession must be based upon some connection between the defendant and the contraband other than mere spatial proximity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Js
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.