Evans v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth (1987), Stamper v. Commonwealth (1979)
2 federal appellate · 91 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 Frazier v. Cupp · Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth · Painter v. Commonwealth · Boykins v. Commonwealth · Granberry 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the sufficiency of the evidence is attacked, the judgment of the trial court sitting without a jury is entitled to the same weight as a jury verdict and will not be disturbed [on appeal] unless plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the accused to reduce the offense and on the Commonwealth to elevate it.”
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.