Jackson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• possession can be inferred when drugs are found in the immediate presence of the defendant
• jury can infer possession when drugs are found in the immediate presence of the defendant
• “It is well established that where drugs are found in the immediate presence of a defendant, the jury is authorized to find that the defendant is in constructive possession of the drugs.”
• “It is well established that where drugs are found in the immediate presence of a defendant, the jury is authorized to find that the defendant is in constructive possession of the drugs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-28· cited 32×
• Daugherty v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-21· cited 26×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-16· cited 22×
• Brashier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-14· cited 21×
• Greene v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-30· cited 19×
• Ellison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-19· cited 19×
• Slaughter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-06· cited 13×
• Wilkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 12×
• Neugent v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-29· cited 11×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-30· cited 11×
• Moon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-06· cited 6×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-19· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-16· cited 4×
• Richard Lamar Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-19

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 74×
• Odett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 61×
• Parnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-20· cited 48×
• Nickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-06· cited 29×
• Polite v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-10· cited 28×
• Crosby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-07-03· cited 25×
• Crenshaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-08· cited 24×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-15· cited 22×
• Cockrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-09· cited 19×
• Nihart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-11· cited 18×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-02-03· cited 18×
• Carroll v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-04-29· cited 11×
• Saxon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-25· cited 10×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-04-06· cited 10×
• Nanthabouthdy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-03· cited 9×
• McCollum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-10· cited 7×
• Battle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-23· cited 6×