49 Ala. App. 690 - Powers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably 426 So. 2d 863 - Vogel v. State (1980), 54 Ala. App. 520 - Osner v. State (1974)
50 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 Ballentyne v. Wickersham · Ex parte Pollard · Dearborn v. Johnson · Kendrick v. Boyd · Johnson v. Robinson
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We pretermit making an observation at this time as to which party — the State or the defendant — has the burden or duty to prove to the appropriate degree that the defendant did or did not have the marijuana for his personal use only. The Legislature at some early session may want to consider placing the burden. Suffice it to say the evidence, supra, created an issue for the jury to decide such use vel non. The defendant did not take the witness stand.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. State““The jury could have inferred from the evidence that the defendant had the marihuana for his personal use only. The jury was entitled to consider the small quantity found plus the evidence of Dr. Grubbs, the State Toxicologist, who testified that ‘some of the marijuana is sold in match boxes, but it is also carried in match boxes for addicts — it could be either.’ ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State““... Provided, that any person who possesses any marihuana for his personal use only is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction for the offense, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year, and in addition, shall be fined not more than $1,000.00 ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor 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.