501 So. 2d 176 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2012
11 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 Brown v. State · Frank v. State · 336 So. 2d 127 - Hively v. State · 397 So. 2d 738 - Wale v. State · 320 So. 2d 823 - Willis 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exists where the accused without physical possession of the controlled substance knows of its presence on or about his premises and has the ability to maintain control over said controlled substance. To establish constructive possession, the state must show that the accused had dominion and control over the contraband, knew the contraband was within his presence, and knew of the illicit nature of the contraband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The accused must have dominion and control over the contraband; (2) The accused must have knowledge that the contraband is within his presence; and, (3) The accused must have knowledge of the illicit nature of the contraband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State“actual possession exists where the accused has physical possession of the controlled substance and knowledge of such physical possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.