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← 835 SO2D 1177 - Lee v. State

Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Terry · State v. Delva · Brown v. State · 684 So. 2d 736 - Chicone v. State · Frank v. State

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

  1. “'If the premises on which the drugs are found are in the exclusive possession and control of the accused, knowledge of their presence on such premises coupled with his ability to maintain control over them may be inferred.' This rebuttable inference stands even when the [S]tate offers no evidence of how the defendant came to possess the vehicle in which drugs were found.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “presence, as driver and sole occupant of the vehicle at the time of his arrest, is sufficient to show he exclusively possessed the vehicle, creating an inference of his dominion and control and guilty knowledge of the marijuana”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The inference that may be drawn from sole occupancy of a vehicle in which contraband is found, without more, is sufficient to prove a prima facie case of [constructive] possession.”
    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.