10 Va. App. 381 - Hope v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2011
23 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McDougall v. North Carolina · Laverick v. United States · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Peterson v. Commonwealth · Davis v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the proper determination of a fact depends upon circumstantial evidence, the safe, practical rule to follow is that in no case is evidence to be excluded of facts or circumstances connected with the principal transaction, from which an inference can be reasonably drawn as to the truth of a disputed fact. The modern doctrine in this connection is extremely liberal in the admission of any circumstance which may throw light upon the matter being investigated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Com.“Boggs v. Commonwealth, 199 Va. 478, 486 , 100 S.E.2d 766, 772 (1957).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Com.
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.