25 Va. App. 629 - Canipe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 60 Va. App. 1 - Tizon v. Commonwealth (2012), 27 Va. App. 336 - Lynn v. Commonwealth (1998)
46 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 Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · O'Dell v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso v. Commonwealth · Barrett v. Commonwealth · Essex 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On review, this Court does not substitute its judgment for that of the trier of fact. Instead, the jury's verdict will not be set aside unless it appears that it is plainly wrong or without supporting evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Malice may be either express or implied---- “Express malice is evidenced when one person kills another with a sedate, deliberate mind, and formed design---- Implied malice exists when any purposeful, cruel act is committed by one individual against another without any, or without greaty provocation.... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The purpose of closing argument is to summarize the evidence for the jury, to persuade the jury to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the client, and to apply that evidence to the law in a manner which will result in a verdict favorable to the client.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.