27 Va. App. 505 - Marable v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 43 Va. App. 327 - West v. Commonwealth (2004), 33 Va. App. 766 - Snow v. Commonwealth (2000)
101 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 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · Hamilton v. Rathbone · Coleman v. Commonwealth · 8 Va. App. 194 - Long v. Commonwealth · 7 Va. App. 269 - Cantrell 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n its role of judging witness credibility, the fact finder is entitled to disbelieve the self-serving testimony of the accused and to conclude that the accused is lying to conceal his guilt.”
8 later decisions 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.