292 Ga. App. 208 - Kier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2012
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 252 Ga. App. 268 - Jackson v. State · Mitchell v. State · 232 Ga. App. 499 - Moody v. State · 216 Ga. App. 188 - Paden v. State · 277 Ga. App. 174 - Hodges 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attempts to flee or elude police; inconsistent explanations by the defendant for [his] behavior; the presence of significant amounts of contraband and drug paraphernalia in plain view; the defendant’s possession of large amounts of cash ... or drug-related paraphernalia; evidence that the defendant was under the influence of drugs; or drug residue found on the defendant”
1 later decision 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
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.