265 Ga. App. 440 - Meridy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
November 2010
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 248 Ga. App. 456 - Hash v. State · Edmond v. State · 186 Ga. App. 239 - Raines v. State · 246 Ga. App. 153 - Tran v. State · 245 Ga. App. 706 - Brown 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[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 the intention at a given time to exercise dominion or control over a thing is then in constructive possession of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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