652 So. 2d 745 - Berry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2017
22 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 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State · 88 Wash. 2d 899 - State v. Partin · 77 Wash. 2d 27 - State v. Callahan · 249 So. 2d 414 - Curry v. State · 123 Wash. 2d 794 - State v. Staley
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[TJhere must be sufficient facts to warrant a finding that [the] defendant was aware of the presence and character of the particular substance and was intentionally and consciously in possession of it.... Constructive possession may be shown by establishing that the drug involved was subject to his dominion or control.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State · Hudson v. State“when contraband is found on premises which are not owned by a defendant ... the [S]tate must show additional incriminating circumstances to justify a finding of constructive possession.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]ossession, no matter how fleeting, is sufficient to sustain a conviction [for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver].”
2 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.