Maye v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Sheriff, Washoe County v. Smith (1975), 20 Va. App. 484 - Mayhew v. Commonwealth (1995)
3 federal appellate · 42 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 Morissette v. United States · Mackay v. Nesbett · United States v. Johnson · United States v. Closkey
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Code § 18.2-117 provides: If any person comes into the possession as bailee of any . . . vehicle . . . and fail [s] to return the same to the bailor, in accordance with the bailment agreement, he shall be deemed guilty of larceny thereof .... The failure to return to the bailor such . . . vehicle . . . within five days from the time the bailee has agreed in writing to return the same shall be prima facie evidence of larceny by such bailee of such . . . vehicle.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claim that a statute on its face contains no requirement of mens rea or scienter is no ground for holding the statute unconstitutional since such requirement will be read into the statute by the court when it appears the legislature implicitly intended that it must be proved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the failure of the statute to require mens rea or scienter [was] fatal.”
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.