Maxwell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence that defendant was a passenger in a vehicle where cocaine was found and that she had possessed cocaine on a previous occasion was insufficient to establish constructive possession
• connection necessary for constructive possession “lacking where hidden contraband drugs were found in a vehicle in which defendant was merely a co-occupant, and there was no evidence that defendant had knowledge of the contraband’s existence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-06· cited 22×
• Hodges v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-09· cited 21×
• Clewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-08-22· cited 12×
• Fluker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-02· cited 10×
• Gillis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-27· cited 8×
• Hoglen v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-29· cited 5×
• Randall Joe Pyles v. The State of Wyoming
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2020-02-03· cited 5×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• 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×
• Shirley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-18· cited 34×
• Shropshire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-07· cited 26×
• Lowe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-10-11· cited 16×
• Luke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-16· cited 11×
• Chitwood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 10×
• Luke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 10×