Hunter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 6 Va. App. 507 - Servis v. Commonwealth (1988), 10 Va. App. 87 - Josephs v. Commonwealth (1990)
40 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 Sharp v. Commonwealth · United States v. Childs
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ossession and ownership may imply intent to use rather than intent to distribute....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sharp did not hold that quantity cannot be considered as an element of proof of intent to distribute. Intent necessarily must be proved by circumstances. Quantity, when considered in context with other circumstances, is a circumstance which may have significant probative value.... Indeed, quantity, when greater thán the supply ordinarily possessed by a narcotics user for his personal use, is a circumstance which, standing alone, may be sufficient to support a finding of intent to distribute.” 213 Va. at 570, 193 S.E.2d at 780 .”
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.