Davis v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that convictions may be sustained based on circumstantial evidence alone if the evidence supports a reasonable inference of guilt
• holding that a police officer, testifying as a skilled witness, could opine as to characteristics that distinguish drug dealers from drug users, which included the packaging and amount of cocaine found
• noting that an officer with experience investigating narcotics crimes was qualified to testify as a skilled witness regarding the packaging and amounts of cocaine related to dealing
• finding intent to deliver where defendant possessed 10 5.6225 grams of cocaine packaged into forty-five bindles
• “The more narcotics a person possesses, the stronger the inference that he intended to deliver it and not consume it personally.”
• “Intent, being a mental state, can only be established by considering the behavior of the relevant actor, the surrounding circumstances, and the reasonable inferences to be drawn from them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hape v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-03-31· cited 124×
• Andrew S. Satterfield v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2015-06-26· cited 84×
• Richardson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-11-20· cited 25×
• Prewitt v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-12-13· cited 24×
• Turner v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-12-18· cited 18×
• Dandridge v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-06-23· cited 14×
• D.H., a Minor, by Her Parent, A.M.J., and A.M.J. Individually v. Mary Whipple, and Robert Whipple (Deceased)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-05-29· cited 14×
• Gary Elvers v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-12-17· cited 13×
• A House Mechanics, Inc. v. Michael Massey
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-05-23· cited 10×
• Cline v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-01-25· cited 3×
• Gault v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-02-23· cited 2×
• Vinson Tate v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-03-17
• Deandre Moore v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-07-29
• Kevin Terry v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-12-06
• Christopher Johnston v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-01-20
• Sarah Speck v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-02-22
• Alan Ponce-Gomez v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-03-09
• Kenneth Scott v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-03-22
• Kenneth Lee Neville, Jr. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-07-25
• Todd Norman v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-08-10

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stephenson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-01-25· cited 148×
• Maul v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-06-30· cited 83×
• Cox v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-09-17· cited 82×
• Alspach v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-09-11· cited 57×
• Berry v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-07-18· cited 40×
• Simmons v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-01-15· cited 32×
• Love v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-01-11· cited 31×
• Haycraft v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-12-28· cited 30×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-09-16· cited 22×
• Spires v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-09-12· cited 20×
• Hazzard v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-11-22· cited 20×