504 So. 2d 328 - Wesenberg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2001
8 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 366 So. 2d 740 - Temple v. State · Bracewell v. State · 369 So. 2d 46 - Flanagan v. State · 439 So. 2d 723 - Ex Parte Campbell · 351 So. 2d 689 - McHellen 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Where drugs are found on premises of which the defendant was in nonexclusive possession, the fact that they were found among or near his personal belongings may be a circumstance which is sufficient to link him with the possession of those drugs. Annot., 56, A.L.R.3d 948, § 10 (1974).'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The establishment of a chain of custody is needed to show a reasonable possibility that evidence has not been tampered with or altered.’ Grice v. State, 481 So.2d 449, 451 (Ala.Cr.App.1985). ‘To establish a sufficient predicate for admission into evidence, it must be shown that there was no break in the chain of custody. Identification and continuity must be sufficiently established to afford ample assurance of the authenticity of the item.’ Whetstone v. State, 407 So.2d 854, 859 (Ala.Cr.App.1981).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State“[t]he crime of possession of a controlled substance can be jointly committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lámar 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.