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State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2019

13 state decisions

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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. Dodd · State v. Young · State v. Polk · State v. Ray · State v. Turner

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he syringe with the cocaine residue was found in defendant’s front shirt pocket. The residue on the inside of the syringe was visible. Defendant was therefore in actual physical possession, as opposed to constructive possession, of the trace amount of the cocaine. In addition, defendant made two statements which indicated that he was aware of the presence and character of the substance. First, his statement that he had a “hit” of cocaine at 4:00 p.m. raises the inference that the syringe in question was used for that purpose. Second, his statement that there was nothing in the syringe raises the inference that he knew that there had been cocaine in it, at least at 4:00 in the afternoon. These statements by defendant also negate his argument on appeal that he didn’t have knowledge of the cocaine’s presence because it was only “left over” in the syringe and because he told the officer the syringe was empty.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Kopp

How this case has been treated — in progress

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