17 Va. App. 124 - Watson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2010
10 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 3 Va. App. 531 - Crews v. Commonwealth · Hankerson v. Moody · Schaaf v. Commonwealth · Sutherland v. Commonwealth · 14 Va. App. 666 - Williams 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that “[t] he judgment of the court sitting without a jury will not be set aside unless it is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it. However, a trial court’s conclusion based on evidence that is ‘not in material conflict’ does not have this binding effect on appeal.” A “trier of fact . . . ‘may not arbitrarily disregard uncontroverted evidence of unimpeached witnesses which is not inherently incredible and not inconsistent with facts in the record,’ ” and a finding under such circumstances presents a question of law, reviewable by this Court on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Commonwealth
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.