277 Ga. App. 174 - Hodges v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mitchell v. State · 212 Ga. App. 787 - Reid v. State · 207 Ga. App. 131 - Whipple v. State · 238 Ga. App. 197 - Maxwell v. State · 262 Ga. App. 291 - Wofford 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A finding of constructive possession must be based upon some connection between the defendant and the contraband other than spatial proximity. Evidence of mere presence at the scene of the crime, and nothing more to show participation of a defendant in the illegal act, is insufficient to support a conviction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“when the State’s constructive possession case is based wholly on circumstantial evidence, the law requires that the proved facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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