478 So. 2d 266 - Keys v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State (1985), 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994)
85 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 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · 249 So. 2d 414 - Curry v. State · Westbrook v. State · 463 So. 2d 1087 - Hester v. State · Williamson 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n item is within one's constructive possession when it is subject to his dominion or control.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. State · Jordan v. State“[t]he Court instructs the jury that if you determine that the State's proof against the Defendant is wholly circumstantial , in that event, the guilt of the Defendant must not only be proved beyond a reasonable doubt but also to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence.”
1 later decision 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.