State v. Neely’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2024
20 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 State v. Sundberg · State v. O'NEILL · State v. Meader · State v. Valley · State v. Van Voast
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constructive possession occurs when the accused maintains control or a right to control the contraband; possession may be imputed when the contraband is found in a place which is immediately and exclusively accessible to the accused and subject to his dominion and control, or the joint dominion and control of the accused and another person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rose · State v. Cody Clark“for a sufficient time to be able to terminate control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harper
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.