319 So. 2d 396 - State v. Cann’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 425 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Trahan (1983), 471 So. 2d 701 - State v. Cann (1985)
2 federal appellate · 84 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 Arellanes v. United States · United States v. Stephenson · State v. Smith · United States v. Holland · 278 So. 2d 485 - State v. Douglas
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person may be in constructive possession of a drug even though it is not in his physical custody, if it is subject to his dominion and control. Also, a person may be deemed to be in joint possession of a drug which is in the physical custody of a companion, if he willfully and knowingly shares with the other the right to control of it."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Oliver · State v. Ashlock“[t]he mere presence of someone in the area where the controlled dangerous substance is found, or mere association with the person found to be in possession of the contraband, is insufficient to constitute constructive possession.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell · State v. Johnson“[i]n order to convict a person on the basis of constructive possession, something more than mere presence in the area where the drug is found or mere association with the person in actual custody of the drug must be shown.”
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.