Slater v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Henry v. State (1974), James Edward Martin v. Commonwealth of Virginia and C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary (1966)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 Whalen v. Commonwealth · Vaughan v. Lytton
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case at bar the conduct of the defendant negatives any idea that he intended to deprive the owner of the car temporarily. He did no act prior to his arrest to indicate that he intended to return the car to the owner. On the other hand, his conduct and testimony disclose that he intended to deprive the owner of the car permanently. This is the only conclusion that can be reached from the evidence. The circumstances under which the car was taken, and his actions regarding it afterwards, including his abandoning it in a public highway, show clearly that he was guilty of the offense of larceny and not of unauthorized use.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any person who shall take, drive or use any * * * vehicle * * * not his own, without the consent of the owner thereof and in the absence of the owner, and with intent temporarily to deprive the owner thereof of his possession thereof, without intent to steal the same, shall be confined in the penitentiary * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The main difference between common law larceny and the statutory offense of unauthorized use is that in the former there must be an intent to deprive the owner of his property permanently, while in the latter the intent is to deprive the owner of possession of his automobile temporarily and without any intent to steal the same. The intent with which property is taken determines the offense.” See also Robinson v. Commonwealth, 190 Va. 134, 143 , 56 S.E. 367 , 371; Blanks v. Gordon, 202 Va. 295, 298 , 117 S.E. 2d 82, 84 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.