306 Ga. App. 33 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brown v. State · Mitchell v. State · Bridges 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession of contraband may be joint or exclusive, and actual or constructive. 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 passagee.g. White v. State“Generally, counsel's decision as to which theory of defense to pursue is considered strategic and cannot serve as the basis for an ineffective assistance claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. HANDY v. the STATE.
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.