Shirley 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 insufficient to sustain conviction for possession of controlled substance where defendant had no knowledge that drugs were in co-defendant’s car
• conviction reversed because other persons in vehicle had equal opportunity to commit crime, defendant was merely present at scene of crime, and other party had actual possession of drugs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rose v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-31· cited 48×
• Reid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-16· cited 46×
• Barnes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-07· cited 30×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-26· cited 28×
• Shropshire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-07· cited 26×
• Pittman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-17· cited 26×
• Blair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-03-08· cited 23×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-03· cited 19×
• Rautenberg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-02-24· cited 17×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-10-20· cited 15×
• Llaguno v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-11-29· cited 12×
• Luke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-16· cited 11×
• Bostic v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-06-24· cited 10×
• Sutton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-09-13· cited 10×
• Brint v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-10· cited 10×
• Murrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-27· cited 9×
• Maxwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-21· cited 8×
• Carswell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-11-05· cited 8×
• Farmer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-12· cited 7×
• State v. Peacock
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-03-04· cited 7×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pitts v. Glass
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-01-28· cited 206×
• State v. Swift
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-25· cited 97×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-05-14· cited 28×
• Drake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-04-14· cited 23×
• Rush v. Southern Property Management, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-03-11· cited 19×
• Huncke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-01-19· cited 14×
• Flowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-09-11· cited 8×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-07-06· cited 4×