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← 274 Va. 724 - Perez v. Com.

Perez v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
April 2016
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 24 Va. App. 30 - McBride v. Commonwealth · Wilson v. Commonwealth · Palmer v. Com. · Overbey 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The issue upon appellate review is `whether, after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[p]rior convictions may be proved by any competent evidence.”
    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.