13 Va. App. 6 - Morton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2014
21 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 Leary v. United States · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Barnes v. United States · 6 Va. App. 507 - Servis v. Commonwealth · Burnette 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here an inference supporting guilt is no more likely to arise from a proven fact than one favoring innocence, the inference of guilt is impermissible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“other evidence also tends to prove the element of the crime, ... the probative weight of the inferred fact need be no greater than that required of any other evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McQuinn v. Com.“between the fact proven and the ultimate fact presumed.”
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.