Parson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2001
10 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 Thomas v. State · Jones v. State · Ledcke v. State · 175 Ind. App. 503 - Martin v. State · 177 Ind. App. 432 - Mills 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Additional factors present in nonexelu-sive possession situations which have been held sufficient to link the accused with the substance in question include: Thomas, (defendant seated near table where narcotics were found in open view) Ledcke v. State, (1973) 260 Ind. 382 , 296 N.E.2d 412 (drugs in manufacturing setting and defendant's attempted flight); Griffin v. State, (1972) 259 Ind. 205 , 285 N.E.2d 644 (defendant admitted owning narcotics); Watt, (close proximity of defendant's clothing to contraband); Hutcherson v. State, (1978) Ind.App., 381 N.E.2d 877 , reh. den. (1978) 382 N.E.2d 983 (defendants attempted flight); Mills v. State, (1978) Ind.App., 379 N.E.2d 1023 (incriminating paraphernalia linked to defendant); Moss v. State, (1975) 165 Ind.App. 502 , 333 N.E.2d 141 , 335 N.E.2d 633 (furtive gestures)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Snyder v. State“the inference of intent must be supported by additional cireumstances pointing to an accused's knowledge of the nature of the contraband and its presence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State
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.