286 Ga. App. 49 - Barton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
7
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. True · 252 Ga. App. 268 - Jackson v. State · Hermanek v. United States · 277 Ga. App. 670 - Morgan v. State · 265 Ga. App. 440 - Meridy 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 20 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“the State failed to show that the defendant, who had images of child pornography located in his computer's cache, took some affirmative action to save or download those images to his computer or had knowledge that his computer automatically saved those files.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is unlawful for any person knowingly to possess or control any material which depicts a minor or a portion of a minor's body engaged in any sexually explicit conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.