Evans v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 420 Pa. Super. 266 - Commonwealth v. Gerulis (1992), 18 Va. App. 168 - Essex v. Commonwealth (1994)
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 Sims v. Georgia · Wright v. Commonwealth · Brooks v. Peyton · Lund v. Commonwealth · United States v. Abrams
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.
“Failure to make a timely defense has been held a waiver. Brooks v. Peyton, 210 Va. 318 , 171 S.E.2d 243 (1969) (statutory discharge from prosecution for delay in bringing to trial waived by failure to make timely objection); Hubbard v. Commonwealth, 207 Va. 673 , 152 S.E.2d 250 (1967) (statutory bar to double prosecution for one illegal act waived by failure to make timely objection); Driver v. Seay, 183 Va. 273 , 32 S.E.2d 87 (1944) (constitutional defense of double jeopardy waived by failure to make timely objection); United States v. Abrams, 357 F.2d 539 (2nd Cir.), cert. denied, 384 U.S. 1001 , 86 S.Ct. 1922 , 16 L.Ed.2d 1014 (1966) (claim of privilege against self-incrimination waived by failure to make timely objection).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t the common law, an article to be the subject of larceny must be of some value. It is sufficient, however, it is said, if it be worth less than the smallest coin known to the law. ... The indictment charges, that the lock was of the value of thirty cents. It is assigned that there was no proof of the value. It is true there was no distinct proof of a specific value, nor was such proof necessary. But the evidence, nevertheless, shows that it was of some value. It was used for fastening the door on which it was hanging.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“computer time or services or data processing services or information or data stored in connection therewith” is “property” for purposes of larceny, embezzlement, or false pretenses. Va.Code § 18.2-98.1. Accordingly, theft of a computer printout constitutes petit larceny, under the broadened definition of”
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.