State v. Aikins

How courts have described this case

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

• holding constructive possession could be assumed from evidence that narcotics were found in car owned by, registered to, and driven by defendant at time of arrest
• holding constructive possession could be assumed from evidence that narcotics were found in car owned by, registered to, and driven by defendant at time of arrest
• affirming convictions for possession for sale of heroin and cocaine where both substances were found in the same seizure
• ―[C]ircumstantial evidence regarding the quantity of contraband . . . found in the possession of defendant, its packaging, the secret compartment in which it was discovered, all can be taken into account in convicting for possession for sale.‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jung
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1973-02-22· cited 27×
• State v. Miller
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1975-07-07· cited 25×
• State v. Bankhead
  Utah Supreme Court· 1973-10-04· cited 21×
• State v. Metcalf
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-12-21· cited 11×
• Jorge Romero-Millan v. William Barr
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2022-04-19· cited 11×
• State v. Kappes
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1976-05-27· cited 8×
• State v. Watkins
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1979-01-11· cited 7×
• State v. Snodgrass
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1973-03-27· cited 5×
• State ex rel. Berger v. Superior Court
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1974-01-08· cited 4×
• Aikins v. Gomes
  D. Arizona· 1972-11-27· cited 2×
• Aikins v. Cardwell
  Ninth Circuit· 1974-01-16· cited 1×
• State of Arizona v. Gary Edward Cox
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2007-03-29
• State v. Rascon
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-01-14

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Roviaro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-03-25· cited 3,599×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• Burdeau v. McDowell
  Supreme Court· 1921-06-01· cited 1,253×
• Jack Marrin Williamson and Morris Lee Lowrey v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1963-03-05· cited 193×
• State v. Arce
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1971-04-22· cited 46×
• People v. Fierro
  California Court of Appeal· 1965-08-04· cited 31×
• People v. Jackson
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-12-31· cited 26×
• State v. Smith
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1971-03-26· cited 16×
• State v. Castro
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1970-10-26· cited 14×
• State v. Snyder
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1970-05-05· cited 14×
• State v. James
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1969-09-29· cited 12×
• State v. Martinez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1971-10-12· cited 8×
• State Ex Rel. Berger v. Hughes
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1971-03-01· cited 4×