647 So. 2d 337 - State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 809 So. 2d 923 - State v. Brisban (2002), 870 So. 2d 995 - State v. Johnson (2004)
51 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall · State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King · 425 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Trahan · 563 So. 2d 847 - State v. Lubrano
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he mere presence of someone in the area where the controlled dangerous substance is found, or mere association with the person found to be in possession of the contraband, is insufficient to constitute constructive possession.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dominion and control over the contraband.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a rational factfinder could only speculate that the defendant exercised with [the apartment occupant] dominion and control over the twelve rocks of cocaine recovered by the police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.