Whitney 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 defendant’s sole possession of the car in which contraband was found was sufficient to show his ability to control the contraband
• determining that trial court could reasonably conclude defendant was in exclusive possession of vehicle where he was the driver and sole occupant when stopped by police
• will not impute evidence of intent to possess hidden contraband based solely on exclusive possession of borrowed vehicle
• defendant’s sole possession of vehicle in which cocaine was discovered was sufficient to establish constructive possession of cocaine
• court determined that the driver had exclusive possession of the vehicle because he was the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle when he was stopped by the police
• exclusive possession found notwithstanding assertion of another’s prior access

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Ortiz
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2001-05-24· cited 308×
• Holmes v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-03-28· cited 42×
• Calvert v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-07-27· cited 39×
• Armour v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-02-05· cited 33×
• Martin v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-03-12· cited 29×
• Allen v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-05-05· cited 24×
• Bush v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-04-27· cited 17×
• Patrick Austin v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-12-21· cited 1×
• Douglas P. Wilson, Jr. v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-05-09
• Tony Dean v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-30
• Earl Moody v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-31
• Lee M. Gleaves II v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-10-24
• Nicholas Dunkerson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-02-13
• Zachary Wilson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-03-26
• Michael Ray Gross v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-04-25
• Justin Cherry v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-06-21

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Pedro Resio-Trejo
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-02-08· cited 213×
• Bruce v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-04-19· cited 200×
• United States v. Mack Allen Richardson
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-06-21· cited 113×
• Bustamante v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-08-07· cited 109×
• Lampkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-10-09· cited 109×
• Nicholas v. Tennessee Department of Employment Security
  Supreme Court· 1978-11-27· cited 96×
• Goliday v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-03-19· cited 84×
• Davenport v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-07-06· cited 70×
• Woods v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-12-13· cited 53×
• Goodner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-24· cited 48×
• Carnes v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1985-07-23· cited 47×
• Wooden v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-11-15· cited 33×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1997-04-22· cited 26×
• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1985-09-06· cited 22×
• Parson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1982-03-01· cited 18×