State v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Rogers (1986), State v. Watkins (1994)
6 federal appellate · 163 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Brown v. Illinois · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · State v. Harvey
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where such materials are found on the premises under the control of an accused, this fact, in and of itself, gives rise to an inference of knowledge and possession which may be sufficient to carry the case to the jury on a charge of unlawful possession.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A d]efendant's motion to dismiss must be considered in light of all the evidence introduced by the State as well as that introduced by defendant. Thus, the question presented is whether upon consideration of all the evidence, whether competent or incompetent, in the light most favorable to the State, there is substantial evidence that the crime charged in the bill of indictment was committed and that defendant was a perpetrator of that crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n a prosecution for possession of contraband materials, the prosecution is not required to prove actual physical possession of the materials.”
4 later decisions 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.