Augustine v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably 11 Va. App. 535 - Rollston v. Commonwealth (1991), 16 Va. App. 82 - Pugliese v. Commonwealth (1993)
34 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 · LaPrade v. Commonwealth · Simmons v. Commonwealth · Hall v. Commonwealth · Montgomery 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While possession raises an inference that [the possessor] is the thief, and the burglar, no such inference arises with respect to arson. There is an insufficient nexus between the possession of stolen goods and arson to create a prima facie presumption of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“procured, encouraged, countenanced, [and] approved commission of the crime.”
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.