408 So. 2d 173 - Beasley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably 471 So. 2d 485 - Faircloth v. State (1984), 505 So. 2d 1067 - Donahoo v. State (1986)
29 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Patterson v. United States · Johnson v. State · 387 So. 2d 280 - Gunn v. State · Ex Parte Gunn
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Section 20-2-80 , Code of Alabama 1975, does not make a felony/misdemeanor distinction based upon the use for which marijuana is possessed. Section 20-2-80 is strictly a felony offense. The State must only prove in the case at bar that the appellant was `knowingly in actual or constructive possession of in excess of one kilo or 2.2 pounds of cannabis.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Section 20-2-80 supersedes the application of § 20-2-70 when the offender possesses in excess of 2.2 pounds of marijuana, whether for personal use or sale." Beasley , 408 So.2d 173 (Ala.Cr.App. 1981).”
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.