Stevens 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 evidence was insufficient to support conviction when defendant was present in a different room of a house from where drugs were located and nothing connected the defendant to the contents of the house
• “Spatial proximity alone is insufficient to prove joint constructive possession of contraband.”
• “Merely finding contraband on premises occupied by a defendant is not sufficient to support a conviction if it affirmatively appears from the evidence that persons other than the defendant had equal opportunity to commit the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-10· cited 37×
• Castillo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-11· cited 26×
• Sherrer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-09· cited 25×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-03· cited 19×
• In re E. A. D.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 18×
• Herberman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-25· cited 17×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-01-26· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-16· cited 16×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-14· cited 16×
• Flores v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-10· cited 15×
• Moss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-19· cited 14×
• Blue v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-29· cited 13×
• Stringer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-16· cited 8×
• Meadows v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-23· cited 8×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-11· cited 8×
• Kegler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-15· cited 8×
• Epps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-09-25· cited 7×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-05· cited 5×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-15· cited 5×
• Grissom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-26· cited 3×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-22· cited 114×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 107×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-07· cited 99×
• Fordham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-15· cited 52×
• Vincent v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-16· cited 33×
• Paden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-02-01· cited 27×
• Morrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-09· cited 24×
• Shreve v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-09-20· cited 20×
• Mathis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-26· cited 17×
• Holbrook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-05-21· cited 15×
• Setser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-11· cited 13×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-09-14· cited 11×
• Lawrence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-13· cited 11×
• Sing v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-05-31· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-12· cited 10×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-29· cited 10×
• Nations v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-02-13· cited 9×