397 So. 2d 738 - Wale v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Brown v. State (1983), Commonwealth v. MacOlino (1983)
62 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 Gernat v. Gernat · Frank v. State · Petty v. People · Dixon v. State · 336 So. 2d 127 - Hively 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The accused must have dominion and control over the contraband; (2) The accused must have knowledge that the contraband is within his presence, and; (3) The accused must have knowledge of the illicit nature of the contraband.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Ivey v. State“evidence that the defendant had actual knowledge of the presence of the contraband or evidence of incriminating statements or circumstances, other than simple proximity to the contraband, from which the jury could infer the defendant's knowledge”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“guilty knowledge of the presence of the contraband, together with his ability to maintain control over it, may be inferred.”
2 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.