People v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

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

1. “[W]hen determining whether sufficient evidence has been presented to sustain a conviction, a court must view the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution and determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found that the essential elements of the crime were proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 256 Mich. App. 175 - People v. Knox · People v. Hunter

2. “Circumstantial evidence and reasonable inferences arising from that evidence can constitute satisfactory proof of the elements of a crime.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 322 Mich. App. 690 - People of Michigan v. Dalton Duane Carll · 256 Mich. App. 212 - People v. Gonzalez

3. “A person need not have actual physical possession of a controlled substance to be guilty of possessing it. Possession may be either actual or constructive. Likewise, possession may be found even when the defendant is not the owner of recovered narcotics. Moreover, possession may be joint, with more than one person actually or constructively possessing a controlled substance.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Towns v. Jackson · 321 Mich. App. 1 - People of Michigan v. Vicki Renee Dickinson