Floyd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Ramdass v. Angelone Director Virginia Department of Corrections (2000), 12 Va. App. 476 - Campbell v. Commonwealth (1991)
80 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 Glasser v. United States · Cree v. Goldstein · Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · Lascaris v. Shirley
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] common purpose and plan may be inferred from a `development and collocation of circumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Ideally, it is always more orderly to present sufficient evidence to establish the prima facie existence of the conspiracy and to identify the conspirators before presenting detailed evidence as to the substantive offenses and the acts and declarations of the conspirators---- As a practical matter, the proof is often ‘sprawling 1 and at certain stages of the trial may appear to present a hodgepodge of acts and statements by various persons. In the final analysis, however, it is always necessary that the evidence be connected and enmeshed so as to present a logical sequence of evidence linking the defendant with the charges against him. The very nature of such cases requires that broad discretion be vested in the trial court with respect to the order of proof.””
1 later decision 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.”
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.