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1990

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 589 So. 2d 1263 - Ivy v. State (1991), Ferrell v. State (1995)

33 state decisions

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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 249 So. 2d 414 - Curry v. State · 506 So. 2d 254 - Boches v. State · 355 So. 2d 1378 - Powell v. State · Hamburg v. State · 483 So. 2d 331 - Pool 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the state must show additional incriminating circumstances to justify a finding of constructive possession.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[w]here the premises upon which contraband is found is not in the exclusive possession of the accused, the accused is entitled to acquittal, absent some competent evidence connecting him with the contraband.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “and that it would be illogical for someone to leave their drugs in a vehicle that someone else would drive. We fail to see how these”
    5 later decisions 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.