Massey v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that possession of contraband by a defendant need not be exclusive and that it can be possessed jointly
• evidence of defendant living in the house and admitting knowledge of the gun was sufficient to prove constructive possession
• evidence sufficient to support conviction for dealing in cocaine where State proved circumstances that established defendant’s knowledge of the presence of contraband
• exclusive control of the location of firearms unnecessary to establish constructive possession because of the ability to take the guns into personal possession
• distinguishing the facts in that case from those in Merritt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Deshazier v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-12-03· cited 38×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-02-22· cited 16×
• Cole v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-06-05· cited 11×
• Walker v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-06-21· cited 11×
• Damon L. Maffett v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-10-23· cited 7×
• Hall v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-07-28· cited 4×
• State v. Cook
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-08-25· cited 2×
• David F. Wood v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-05-20· cited 1×
• Douglas P. Wilson, Jr. v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-05-09
• Ronyai Thompson v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-03-29
• Eqwan Garrett v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-11-05
• Courtney Johnson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-02-19
• Leah S. Fink v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-10-19
• Joshua A.B. Weathers v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-12-29
• Kenneth S. Tipton v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-08-28
• Alicia T. Taylor v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-04-17
• Rickey R. Armour v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-06-19
• Lawrence Lucas v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-01-21
• Kevin MT Edwards v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-04-30
• Kenneth Garretson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-06-04

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Richardson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-10-01· cited 824×
• Seath v. Regulations & Permits Administration
  Supreme Court· 1983-08-23· cited 251×
• Houser v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-02-26· cited 134×
• Henderson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-09-01· cited 110×
• Iddings v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-08-12· cited 85×
• Tinnin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-02-05· cited 73×
• Tedlock v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-09-25· cited 70×
• Esquerdo v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-10-04· cited 70×
• Clark v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-05-19· cited 65×
• Figert v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-10-23· cited 63×
• Everroad v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-04-16· cited 55×
• Ladd v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-03-26· cited 45×
• Hensley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-11-15· cited 39×
• Allen v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-11-13· cited 37×
• Ballard v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-09-17· cited 35×
• Ratliff v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-12-28· cited 31×
• Everroad v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-04-15· cited 28×
• Methene v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-11-30· cited 27×
• Breitweiser v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-01-22· cited 24×