425 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Trahan’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 316 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 318 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 603 So. 2d 731 - State v. Hearold (1992), 695 So. 2d 1367 - State v. Kennerson (1997)
1 federal appellate · 316 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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Ventresca · 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · State v. Smith · 374 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Spencer
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 318 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 it.... Guilty knowledge is an essential ingredient of the crime of unlawful possession of an illegal drug....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“of drugs under the controlled dangerous substances act. Actual physical possession is, of course, sufficient; and various cases hold that there may be”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally: (1) To produce, manufacture, distribute, or dispense or possess with intent to produce, manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled dangerous substance classified in Schedule II[.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.