34 Va. App. 202 - Millard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] series of larcenous acts, regardless of the amount and value of the separate parcels or articles taken, and regardless of the time occupied in the performance, may and will constitute, in contemplation of law, a single larceny, provid ed the several acts are done pursuant to a single impulse and in execution of a general fraudulent scheme.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 42 Va. App. 607 - Bragg v. Commonwealth

2. “To sustain a conviction of larceny by false pretenses, the Commonwealth must prove: (a) that the accused intended to defraud; (b) that a fraud actually occurred; (c) that the accused used false pretenses to perpetrate the fraud; and (d) that the false pretenses induced the owner to part with his property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Michael Paul Reid v. Commonwealth of Virginia

3. “no manifest intent by the legislature in Code § 18.2-178 to abrogate common law larceny.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 59 Va. App. 795 - Moore v. Commonwealth