11 Va. App. 530 - Bell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 18 Va. App. 840 - Woolfolk v. Commonwealth (1994), 13 Va. App. 349 - Fleming v. Commonwealth (1991)
38 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · 8 Va. App. 194 - Long v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Banovitch v. Commonwealth
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[SJpecific intent may, like any other fact, be shown by circumstances. Intent is a state of mind which can be evidenced only by the words or conduct of the person who is claimed to have entertained it. The inferences to be drawn from proven facts, so long as they are reasonable, are within the province of the trier of fact The feet finder may infer that a person intends fee immediate, direct and necessary consequences of his voluntary acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When considering the sufficiency of evidence on appeal of a criminal conviction, we must view all the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth and accord to the evidence all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom. The jury’s verdict will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.