2 Va. App. 598 - Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Goins v. Commonwealth (1996), 5 Va. App. 188 - Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth (1987)
56 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 LeVasseur v. Commonwealth · Coleman v. Commonwealth · Webb v. Commonwealth · Karnes v. Commonwealth · Turner 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]f the proof relied upon by the Commonwealth is wholly circumstantial . . . then to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt all necessary circumstances proved must be consistent with guilt and inconsistent with innocence. They must overcome the presumption of innocence and exclude all reasonable conclusions inconsistent with that of guilt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ultimate inquiry in determining whether evidence is both material—tending to prove a matter which is properly at issue in the case—and relevant—tending to establish the proposition for which it is offered—is: Does the evidence tend to prove a proposition which is itself provable in the case?”
2 later decisions 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.