536 So. 2d 965 - Bragg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2018
13 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 Terry v. Ohio · Ybarra v. Illinois · Michigan v. Summers · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the accused was in nonexclusive possession of the premises upon which the illegal substance was discovered, . . . suspicion may arise that all the inhabitants of the premises knew of the presence of the illegal substance. Temple v. State , 366 So.2d 740 (Ala.Cr.App. 1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toney v. State“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, the issue of the defendant's possession should be submitted to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“However, this suspicion alone is not adequate to infer knowledge. The suspicion must be supported by evidence connecting the accused with the illegal substance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toney 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.