State v. Dethrow’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2002
17 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 State v. Franco · State v. Mansfield · State v. Stewart · Burton v. State · State v. Williams
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Possessed and possessing.] Means having the actual control, care, and management of something to the exclusion of persons other than the possessor or possessors and the possession is not a mere passing control, fleeting and shadowy in its nature. In order to prove the alleged offense the evidence need not show actual physical possession on the part of the defendant. It is not necessary to prove ownership in order to prove possession and more than one person can be in possession at the same time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barnett
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.