71 N.C. App. 521 - State v. Baize’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Diaz (1986), 81 N.C. App. 91 - State v. James (1986)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 Brewer v. United States · State v. Harvey · State v. Brown · State v. Bindyke · State v. Spencer
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Numerous cases have considered this doctrine. No single factor controls. Constructive possession has been found when the narcotics were (1) on property in which the defendant had some exclusive possessory interest and there is evidence of his or her presence on the property; (2) on property of which defendant, although not an owner, had sole or joint physical custody; or (3) in an area which the defendant frequented, usually near his or her property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We have found no acting in concert case in which the State was allowed to leap, in one single bound, the double hurdles of constructive presence and constructive possession. To allow the State to do so on the facts of this case would effectively permit the State to stack inference upon inference .... 71 N.C. App. at 530 , 323 S.E. 2d at 42.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“nonetheless has the intent and capability to maintain control over a controlled substance[,]”
1 later decision 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.