Woods v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably Zillender v. State (1977), McGoldrick v. State (1985)
36 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 Aguilar v. Texas · United States v. Bell · Scamardo v. State · Haynes v. State · Long 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has beeii consistently held in this state that possession means more than just being where the action is; the State must prove two elements: (1) that' the accused exercised care, control, and management over the contraband, and (2) that the accused knew the matter possessed was contraband . . . Therefore, there must be additional independent facts and circumstances which affirmatively link the accused to the contraband in such a manner that it can be concluded he had knowledge of the contraband as well as control over it. . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reyes 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.