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← 280 Va. 100 - Carter v. Com.

Carter v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
3
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 19 Cal. 4th 301 - People v. Davis · Mason v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Jenkins · State v. Hauptmann · Evans 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If the defendant does not leave the premises, the evidence must establish that the defendant in some way, within the store, exercised trespassory possession of the goods inconsistent with the owner's rights.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]t is the appellate court's duty to examine the evidence that tends to support the conviction and to uphold the conviction unless it is plainly wrong or without evidentiary support.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth,”
    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.