State v. Wolery’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 606 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 612 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Long (1978), State v. Lott (1990)
4 federal appellate · 606 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · State v. Dehass · Caminetti v. United States · Hoffa v. United States · Oyler v. Boles
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 612 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constructive possession exists when an individual exercises dominion and control over an object, even though that object may not be within his immediate physical possession.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage“On the trial of a case, either civil or criminal, the weight to be given the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses are primarily for the trier of fact.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Possession of stolen property may be individual or joint, actual or constructive. Proof of control or dominion is essential. But control or dominion may be achieved through the instrumentality of another.”
2 later decisions 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.