15 Va. App. 518 - Welch v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2014
17 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 United States v. Ballard · Mason v. Commonwealth · Evans v. Commonwealth · 13 Va. App. 524 - Martin v. Commonwealth · Wright 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.
“own testimony discloses that he intended to deprive the owner of the car permanently, for he said that he never intended to return the car but intended to abandon it in Bluefield, West Virginia. When one wrongfully takes property of another with intent to deprive the owner thereof, larceny is complete, though the accused afterwards abandons it. Evidence of the offense of unauthorized use is entirely absent. That of larceny is full handed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“One may be said to have taken another's property by trespass though he has not removed it from the other's premises or from his presence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter 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.