16 Va. App. 300 - Lea v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 29 Va. App. 548 - Ellis v. Commonwealth (1999), 29 Va. App. 240 - Acey v. Commonwealth (1999)
47 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 Scharffe v. Perkins · Marquez v. Texas · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Frye v. Commonwealth · Gray 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a]n appellate court must discard all evidence of the accused that conflicts with that of the Commonwealth and regard as true all credible evidence favorable to the Commonwealth and all fair inferences reasonably deducible therefrom.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“tends to sustain both the prosecution's and the defense's theory of the case, the trial judge is required to give requested instructions covering both theories.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the law has been clearly stated and the instructions cover all issues which the evidence fairly raises.”
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.