People v. Boddie’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 211 - People v. Williams (1971), 135 Ill. App. 3d 530 - People v. Loucks (1985)
26 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 56 Cal. 2d 864 - People v. Torres · 60 Cal. 2d 694 - People v. Groom · 57 Cal. 2d 89 - People v. Hughes · People v. Foster · 220 Cal. App. 2d 443 - People v. Villanueva
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constructive possession is sufficient and possession by a person when the defendant has an immediate right to exercise dominion and control over the narcotic will support a conviction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In short, all we have is evidence that defendant, while under the influence of narcotics, was a passenger in an automobile being driven by a person also under the influence of narcotics, in which car narcotics were found in the glove compartment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Layman
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.