46 Ala. App. 36 - Rueffert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 46 Ala. App. 722 - Parks v. State (1971), 366 So. 2d 740 - Temple v. State (1978)
2 district · 94 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 Duncan v. State · 40 Ala. App. 45 - Orr v. State · Jarrell v. State · Pekar v. United States · Waller 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The well established rule in cases involving possession of prohibited liquors is that where actual manucaption is not shown and constructive possession is relied upon, the state must show beyond a reasonable doubt, in addition to the constructive possession, that the accused knew of the presence of the prohibited beverages. Grimes v. State, 38 Ala.App. 94 , 76 So.2d 684 ; Davis v. State, 40 Ala.App. 609 , 119 So.2d 236 . The rules of evidence in a prosecution for possession of marijuana are the same as those applicable in every other criminal case.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Diamond v. State · Arnold 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.