366 So. 2d 740 - Temple v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

115

cited by 115 later decisions

states following

February 2017

most recently cited

115 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 728 So. 2d 192 - Davis v. State (1997), 505 So. 2d 1067 - Donahoo v. State (1986)

115 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 Burks v. United States · 46 Ala. App. 722 - Parks v. State · 46 Ala. App. 36 - Rueffert v. State · 49 Ala. App. 654 - Daniels v. State · Feltes v. People

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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[T]he kinds of circumstances which may provide a connection between a defendant and [illegal drugs] are unlimited and will naturally depend on the facts of each particular case.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Grissom v. State · D.B. v. State
“' Guilty knowledge is invariably proved by circumstantial evidence. Calhoun v. State , supra, at 270; Temple v. State , 366 So.2d 740 , 741 (Ala.Cr.App. 1978). See also Walker v. State , 356 So.2d 674 , 675 (Ala.Cr.App. 1977), cert. denied, 356 So.2d 677 (Ala. 1978). It may be proved by evidence of acts, or conduct of the accused, from which it may be fairly inferred that he knew of the existence of the contraband at the place where it was found. Temple v. State , supra, at 741, Walker v. State , supra, at 676.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Hunter v. State · Ex Parte Wells
“[t]he mere presence of an accused in an automobile containing drugs is not sufficient to establish that the accused had knowledge of their presence,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Coder v. State · 564 So. 2d 1023 - Self v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

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