Hughes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• conviction for trafficking in cocaine reversed where defendant’s passenger had an equal opportunity to commit the crime without the defendant’s knowledge
• “A finding of. . . constructive possession must be based upon some connection between the defendant and the contraband other than spatial proximity.”
• neither presence nor flight, nor both together, without more, is conclusive of guilt
• passenger was found in actual possession of the drugs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Kemp
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2004-11-10· cited 29×
• MacKey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-28· cited 26×
• Larochelle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-01-05· cited 23×
• Waters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-07-14· cited 22×
• Coney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-19· cited 20×
• Dugger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-11· cited 19×
• Ramirez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-04· cited 17×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-20· cited 9×
• Newman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-01-13· cited 8×
• Holland v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 4×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-13· cited 3×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-25· cited 3×
• Victor Grullon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-30
• Dixie Roadbuilders, Inc. v. Shekennya Sallet
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-26

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-04· cited 66×
• Gee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-01-21· cited 58×
• Reid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-16· cited 46×
• Whipple v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-01-19· cited 45×
• Fears v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-12-01· cited 39×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1907-10-03· cited 36×
• Shirley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-18· cited 34×
• Elrod v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-02-19· cited 33×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-09-08· cited 29×
• Denham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-12-01· cited 28×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-05-14· cited 28×
• Greeson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-04-28· cited 24×
• Autry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-07-06· cited 23×
• State v. Greeson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-23· cited 17×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1956-02-16· cited 17×
• Donaldson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-05-09· cited 15×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-07-10· cited 13×
• Myers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-11-01· cited 6×