12 Va. App. 867 - Stanley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
3
states following
November 2009
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Engle v. Isaac · 19 Mass. App. Ct. 424 - Commonwealth v. LaPerle · United States v. Campbell · Colbert v. Commonwealth · State v. Adams
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or a defendant to be convicted of possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute, the Commonwealth must prove that the defendant possessed the controlled substance contemporaneously with his intention to distribute that substance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Possession with intent to distribute is a crime which requires 'an act coupled with a specific intent.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even though the quantity of drugs seized is consistent with personal use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zunker
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.