26 Va. App. 1 - Archer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 253 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 257 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 41 Va. App. 250 - Kelly v. Commonwealth (2003), 39 Va. App. 96 - Davis v. Commonwealth (2002)
2 district · 253 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 Chimel v. California · Payton v. New York · New York v. Belton · Alabama v. White · Maryland v. Buie
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 257 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal, `we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Whether an alternative hypothesis of innocence is reasonable is a question of fact and, therefore, is binding on appeal unless plainly wrong.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order for the presumption to arise, the possession must be exclusive, but “[o]ne can be in exclusive possession of an item when he jointly possesses it with another,” as long as “the accused was consciously asserting at least a possessory interest in the stolen property or was exercising dominion over [it].””
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.