3 Va. App. 523 - Bridgeman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably 18 Va. App. 840 - Woolfolk v. Commonwealth (1994), 7 Va. App. 269 - Cantrell v. Commonwealth (1988)
123 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 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · Epperly v. Commonwealth · Bishop v. Commonwealth · Sims v. Commonwealth · McCullough v. McCullough
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The weight which should be given to evidence and whether the testimony of a witness is credible are questions which the fact finder must decide. However, whether a criminal conviction is supported by evidence sufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is not a question of fact but one of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]ircumstantial evidence may be more compelling and persuasive than direct evidence, and when convincing, it is entitled to as much weight as direct evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom. The judgment of a trial court sitting without a jury is entitled to the same weight as a jury verdict and will not be set aside unless it appears from the evidence that the judgment is plainly wrong or without evidence to support 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.