484 So. 2d 536 - Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2013
16 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 Radke v. State · Songer v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al. · 443 So. 2d 1371 - Holsemback v. State · 397 So. 2d 203 - Hurst v. State · German 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to find a defendant guilty of possession of a controlled substance, the state must establish that the accused was in either actual or constructive possession of the substance and that he knew of the presence of the substance. Jones v. State, 432 So.2d 5 (Ala.Cr.App.1983). ‘Constructive possession can be shown where the controlled substance was found on the premises controlled by the defendant, and guilty knowledge may be established by the surrounding facts and circumstances.’ Whitehead v. State, 429 So.2d 641, 643 (Ala.Cr.App.1982).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the presence of the accused at the scene is established and evidence of his knowledge of the presence of the prohibited substance is shown, along with any other incriminating evidence, the issue of the defendant's guilt should be submitted to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The driver of an automobile is generally considered to be in control of it. An inference of constructive possession, therefore, exists.”
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.