Hyde v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 4 Va. App. 83 - Speight v. Commonwealth (1987), 31 Va. App. 145 - Haskins v. Commonwealth (1999)
28 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 Jones v. Commonwealth · Toler v. Commonwealth · Smith v. Commonwealth · Van Dyke 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evidence shows that [M.B.] was intentionally killed and that the mortal injuries would certainly constitute child abuse,” Appellant's Br. at 9, and questions only whether sufficient evidence was presented to find appellant caused M.B.'s injuries. Accordingly, we find the "willful act resulting in serious injury” element of the statute satisfied and focus our review on whether the evidence was sufficient to find that appellant, as opposed to someone else, committed the offense. 2 . Appellant contends the Commonwealth improperly relied on appellant's false explanations of the circumstances surrounding the child's death. Appellant asserts that the Commonwealth failed to prove “by the facts or the circumstances, or both, that beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime charged against [her].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the sufficiency of the evidence is challenged after conviction, it is our duty to consider it in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth and give it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom. We should affirm the judgment unless it appears from the evidence that the judgment is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it [Code § 8.01-680].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phan v. Commonwealth““[Ejvidence is not sufficient to support a conviction if it engenders only a suspicion or even a probability of guilt. Conviction cannot rest upon conjecture. The evidence must be such that it excludes every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.””
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.