Kier 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 there was insufficient circumstantial evidence of possession and noting “there was no evidence that [defendant] was uncooperative, attempted to flee police, behaved erratically, or appeared to be under the influence of drugs”
• in a constructive possession case the State needed to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant “knowingly had both the power and intention at a given time to exercise control over the [drug.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smoot v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-05· cited 23×
• Whitaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-29· cited 21×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-18· cited 15×
• Rockholt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-07· cited 13×
• Millsaps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-07· cited 4×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-25· cited 3×
• Diaz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-12· cited 1×
• David Moton, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• Gilbert Alexander Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Peter Hargrove v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-09-15
• Tamera Marie McAnnally v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-01-18
• Drevoisier Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-16
• Ebony Smoot v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-05
• Michael Eric Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-12

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 52×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-02· cited 46×
• Moody v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-07· cited 38×
• Paden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-02-01· cited 27×
• Castillo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-11· cited 26×
• Autry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-07-06· cited 23×
• Hodges v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-09· cited 21×
• Francis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-11· cited 9×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-29· cited 2×