Christopher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably Dickey v. State (1984), Whitworth v. State (1991)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Chambers v. Maroney · Taylor 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To support a conviction for possession of marihuana the evidence must affirmatively link the accused to the contraband in such a manner and to such an extent that a reasonable inference may arise that the accused knew of the contraband’s existence and of its whereabouts, [citing authorities] This affirmative link is established by showing additional facts and circumstances which indicate the accused’s knowledge and control of the contraband, [citing authorities] “In the instant case, the appellant was in possession of the key to the camper which reasonably implies his control over the contraband....””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Marsh v. State · Vallier v. State“So it was that the ‘jurisdiction’ of specially created ‘peace officers’ was prescribed and their powers bestowed by particular law. (footnote omitted). It is for that reason that not every peace officer possesses in common with all other peace officers the same powers, duties and responsibilities. (938-939).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Preston v. State“Any peace officer is authorized to arrest without a warrant any person found committing a violation of this article.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love 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.