56 Ala. App. 102 - Easley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1990
18 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 Aaron v. State · 46 Ala. App. 722 - Parks v. State · Dennison v. State · 46 Ala. App. 36 - Rueffert v. State · 49 Ala. App. 654 - Daniels 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The state's evidence as to the custody and possession of the narcotics in this case unequivocally shows there was no missing link in the chain of identification. Identification and continuity of possession were sufficiently established, affording ample assurance of the authenticity of the pills or tablets and the analyses conducted by the Toxicologist. Powell v. State , 47 Ala. App. 582 , 258 So.2d 923 ; Green v. State , 42 Ala. App. 439 , 167 So.2d 694 ; Aaron v. State , 271 Ala. 70 , 122 So.2d 360 ; Dennison v. State , 259 Ala. 424 , 66 So.2d 552 ; Oury v. State , 53 Ala. App. 240 , 298 So.2d 661 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for unlawful possession of controlled substances it is not necessary to prove manucaption, but constructive possession may be shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.