93 N.C. App. 627 - State v. Rosario’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 148 N.C. App. 310 - State v. Wilkerson (2002), 159 N.C. App. 300 - State v. Shelman (2003)
26 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 United States v. Russell · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg · Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton · State v. Harvey
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An accused's possession of narcotics may be actual or constructive. He has possession of the contraband material within the meaning of the law when he has both the power and intent to control its disposition or use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he source of the [controlled substance] is immaterial so long as defendant knowingly possessed it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant's conviction must be based upon his knowing possession of the drugs.”
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.