38 Va. App. 549 - Foster v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · 26 Va. App. 299 - Ohree v. Commonwealth · 8 Va. App. 194 - Long v. Commonwealth · Cable 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.
“The credibility of a witness and the inferences to be drawn from proven facts are matters solely for the fact finder’s determination. In 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.”
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.